A city in Los Angeles County has reportedly voted to slash law enforcement funding despite concerns about rising crime.
The West Hollywood City Council voted 3-2 to approve a budget that could leave the city with five fewer county sheriff’s deputies on patrol, with Mayor Lauren Meister and a councilman dissenting, according to Fox News.
“Most of the residents and businesses I have heard from are opposed to cutting the sheriff’s budget,” Ms. Meister told Fox. “They are outraged that people and organizations from outside our city are dictating to council how to run our city. The narrative that we can have ‘either sheriff’s or social services,’ or ‘either sheriff’s or unarmed security teams’ is false.