As crime rose in recent months along trendy Melrose Avenue, Councilman Paul Koretz paid for a larger police presence there with District 5 funds.
A string of armed robberies in a popular shopping district highlights a rise this year in the number of robberies involving guns.
Some, but not all, of that spending was drawn from the discretionary funding established after the cut to the LAPD budget last year. During a meeting of the Police Commission last week, LAPD Chief Michel Moore told commissioners that he recently lent the Personnel Department an additional 10 sworn LAPD officers — bringing the total to 34 on loan — to further assist in conducting background checks. Moore said the commitment means less of a police presence in the streets in the short term but was necessary to push against shortfalls in the months to come.L.A.
“LAPD is seeking to hire nearly 750 officers this fiscal year, nearly 50% more than the annual average during the four years preceding the COVID pandemic,” Whidden said.Alex Comisar, a spokesman for Mayor Eric Garcetti, said that keeping residents safe is Garcetti’s “top priority” and that he “is focused on making sure the LAPD has the resources it needs to do that” — including by authorizing additional overtime for patrols.
“When we authorize positions in the budget, I expect those positions to be filled. It’s not a suggestion, it’s a decision being made by the council and the mayor that those positions need to be filled,” Krekorian said. “Whatever the problems are in getting them filled need to be addressed.” Krekorian said the funding in North Hollywood is offsetting costs that the LAPD was incurring to ramp up its community-based policing approach around the parks, which requires officers to get to know community leaders, attend weekend events and log additional hours outside their normal shifts.The Los Angeles Police Commission approved a proposed $213-million budget increase for the LAPD next year. The spending plan is a 12% increase over this year.
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