1. Crecimiento Presupuestario y Comparación con Otros Servicios.
Los presupuestos policiales están experimentando aumentos significativos, a menudo superando el crecimiento de otros departamentos municipales esenciales como tránsito, educación y servicios sociales, lo que genera preocupación por la sostenibilidad fiscal.
- The police budget increased almost 50 from 280m in 2016 to 414m for 2026 so tierney is misinforming readers saying for a decade, weve traded safety and security for policing alternatives experiments that have repeatedly failed, a reality now visible on our streets today. Policing is way up.
- In some cases, police budgets can be up to 30 of the municipal budget, for most major cities, its 16 or less.
- I should be able to say the police are 110 of average spending by cities vs transit at 50. Plus transit is chronically underfunded while the police budget increased 85 in 10 yrs, no cuts since 2013.
- As reginas city council considers across-the-board austerity, important to note that the police operating budget has increased every year - from 71.6 million 10 years ago to 116.1 this year - a 62 increase. Why is the rps immune to the calls for cuts that other city services are subject to?
2. El Alto Costo de la Mala Conducta Policial y la Responsabilidad Financiera.
Los asentamientos por mala conducta y brutalidad policial están drenando millones de dólares de los fondos públicos, obligando a las ciudades a recurrir a préstamos masivos. Existe un fuerte clamor para que estos costos sean asumidos por los propios departamentos o sindicatos policiales.
- Chicago must borrow 283.3 million to cover the soaring cost of lawsuits alleging chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct including wrongful convictions and improper pursuits as part of the citys 2026 budget, mayor brandon johnson said.
- I will never understand why the people of the city have to pay for the misconduct of the police. Take it out of their budget. Since they cant behave, it would basically be a backdoor to defund the police.
- In los angeles, misconduct settlements dont even come out of the police budget. They come out of the general fund. The police are quite literally defunding the whole city.
- Pay police settlements out or the police pension fund and i bet police behavior improves right quick.
3. Redirección de Fondos y Alternativas a la Aplicación de la Ley.
Numerosos residentes y activistas argumentan que la seguridad pública se mejoraría invirtiendo los fondos actualmente destinados a la policía en servicios sociales, salud mental, vivienda asequible y programas de prevención de la violencia.
- The issues were facing demand mental health supports, housing, and community services, not more police.
- They could transfer half the police budget to policies that actually work, like affordable secure housing, moving costs, counselling, and legal representation for lease breaking etc.
- Redirect some of the spd budget to mentalhealth crisis teams, substanceabuse treatment, and communitybased violenceprevention programs.
- The next delegate is cait glasson who proposes that council takes half of the proposed police budget increase, 10 million, and instead invest it in social programs. There are some things that are not best solved by people carrying firearms.
4. Resistencia Política y Desafíos en el Proceso Presupuestario.
A pesar de la oposición pública y las preocupaciones sobre la eficacia, los intentos de reducir o congelar los presupuestos policiales enfrentan obstáculos significativos, incluyendo la influencia de las juntas policiales, las amenazas de veto de los alcaldes y la falta de control directo del consejo municipal.
- Since this is making the rounds again, i guess we can update with the context that our nominally progressive mayor this week said he would veto any budget that cuts police spending.
- Citymgr to remind members, you as council can direct budget goes back. But board of police under no obligation to change anything. But then council must make determination win parameters of police act how much they will fund police services in regina. Yqrcc.
- Cutting police spending is functionally not an option. This is true even though the people of chicago overwhelmingly favor cutting police spending. We dont live in a democracy.
- The police board wants victoria and esquimalt to give the board itself 359,00 next year, including 100,00 for strategic planning that they barely try to justify, and a 259,00 base budget that itself will have gone up 156,00 in three years unless councillors intervene.