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For My Local Town it’s Almost Exactly 55% to 45% cop Funding to Everything Else. What’s Yours?
(lemmy.world)
That does include parking enforcement. Which is done through that half of Townhall. Oh yeah, that’s the other part. They get literally half the real estate of town hall which is delightfully unsubtle.
But yeah, remember specifically that freaking the cops taking on all of these duties, or having these duties thrust upon them outside of their control whatever version of this that you buy into,. Having a whole bunch of unrelated social functions being addressed under the regions of the police forces is the criticism, it’s not some separate part. Why, does parking enforcement or local security or non union road crews get organized and paid from the police department instead of the local government?
How do I even find this out? Is there a specific resource for this, or do I have to ask my City Hall?
Web search “[city name] budget” and see if it’s posted.
SF’s document is yuuge. Apparently 9% per secondary source:
Oh my, my Police dept has a THIRD of the total city budget (if I'm reading this correctly).
Edited for clarity, I’m not in SF and can do basic math.
You aren't, it's a bit less than a tenth
I’m not in SF, I’m elsewhere.
Nine percent is close to a third.