less money for LAPD, more for "communities of color" (employment, salaries)

[antinimby]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

I see you haven’t read any as I suggested. Obviously determined to live in your ignorance of the issues.

About ignorance of issues, you might want to rethink that about yourself.

[antinimby]

Originally Posted by Finper

Garcetti is scary stupid. It’s like he and Newsom are actively trying to destroy Ca and LA is their main goal. Do any other council members have any say in that state? I thought unions were strong there? Are they just going to take this pandering bs to stop the protestors from congregating at his mansion?

The Progressives Democrats like Garcetti (and here locally where I am at, like deBlasio) are only thinking in terms of ideology. All their actions are governed by sticking to their Leftist Progressive ideology, even if it is moronic or self destructive, they will stick by that ideology.

[Astral_Weeks]

Originally Posted by antinimby

If what I wrote made no sense in relation to you, it was because your rambling made no sense to begin with and it would be impossible to make sense out of something that didn’t made sense to begin with.

What is clueless is your claim that racism is what keeps blacks out of hockey. It isn’t. Also clueless is that somehow racism is what keeps blacks poor. No, what keeps blacks poor are their own failings.

I keep reading about how Africans (not African Americans) have high higher education attainment and entrepreneurial rates in this country, even higher than white. That alone disproves the claim that somehow racism is what is keeping blacks down.

It doesn't disprove anything.

Because U.S. immigration criteria favor groups that are talented, highly educated, and affluent, Black immigrants enter the U.S. with high levels of human, social, and economic capital.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3816006/

[sxmfan2018]

i hope they remember who garcetti is if he has to call 911!!! the same loons will vote these two morons back in office and complain about how there screwing up ca

[antinimby]

Originally Posted by Astral_Weeks

It doesn't disprove anything.

Because U.S. immigration criteria favor groups that are talented, highly educated, and affluent, Black immigrants enter the U.S. with high levels of human, social, and economic capital.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3816006/

But if racism is so widespread and strong as to keep blacks poor as the Left suggests, what good would all that “human, social and economic capital” help those Africans?

[(901)]

This is insane. No one but criminals want less police protection

[sxmfan2018]

great call garcetti!!! you get two thumbs up for being an idiot!!! sounds real good till the police can't be there when you call garcetti real smart garcetti!!! time to vote you out along with newscum!!!

[vincenze]

Originally Posted by (901)

This is insane. No one but criminals want less police protection

Criminals loot stores on Melrose.
Policemen just sit on their bikes and do nothing.

[sxmfan2018]

Originally Posted by (901)

This is insane. No one but criminals want less police protection

and how is this even legal putting residents at risk.

[Ruth4Truth]

"...reinvest in communities of color" is very vague. He said he'd explain in detail in a later press conference, which means it's premature to discuss the issue now, since we have no idea what he has in mind.

HOWEVER, this reminds me of back in the 90's, I think it was, when former Congressman and UN Ambassador Andrew Young was working with gangs in LA, and he did a study. He found out, that as private prisons burgeoned around low-income and industrial parts of LA, high school job skills classes, like "shop" class, trades-oriented courses in predominantly minority areas, got eliminated. I can't imagine how those two disparate things would be connected budget-wise, but he said it was a clear trend. IOW, fostering employability among youth from marginalized populations was sacrificed, while more prisons were being built, and the "prison-industrial complex" flourished.

If LA's leadership wants to do something practical that would provide positive results, restoring funding for career-oriented school programs, and beefing up similar CC programs, would be one way to go. Let's see what proposals the mayor comes up with.