LA mayor Karen Bass is asking the city council to give millions of dollars to the Los Angeles Police Department to ramp up hiring.

and the mayor talked about those – in the letter she sent to the city council yesterday.

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With the FIFA World Cup next year and the LA Olympics in 2028, Bass says more men and women in uniform are needed now, and without this money, hiring would freeze in January.

In a letter sent to city council, the mayor wrote that “The second largest city in the United States cannot have an effective police department with 8,300 officers – levels not seen since 1995.”

She says that if the city council allocates $4.4 million dollars for LAPD, they’ll be able to hire 410 more police officers for this

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