The race to succeed Eric Garcetti as mayor of LA is heating up and the two leading contenders made campaign stops pushing their plans for public safety and expanding LAPD.
LOS ANGELES -- As they waited for matzah ball soup at Factor's Deli in Pico-Robertson, Congresswoman Karen Bass and Los Angeles Police Commissioner Steve Soboroff - who has endorsed Bass for mayor - went after developer Rick Caruso's public safety plan, calling it"soundbites" rather than an actual plan.
Caruso, who is also running for mayor and is Bass' main opponent, said if elected, he'll hire 1,500 more LAPD officers. "We can't even hire to keep even, so how are we going to get 1,500?" asked Soboroff."We have 300 openings here. People can't afford to live here. So, the idea of coming up, 'Well, I want 1,100. I want 1,500.' It's just all soundbites. If you take that and amplify it, that's not what [Bass] does. When you suck the air out of the room, nobody else in the room can breathe. That's not what [Bass] does. She lets everybody breathe.
Bass added to that notion saying she believes what's changing the race is"all the money that's being spent."
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