Mayor Karen Bass urged the Los Angeles City Council to allocate $4.4 million for the Los Angeles Police Department to hire 410 more officers.

Police Chief Jim McDonnell said that if the funds are not approved, staffing levels at the department could drop to levels not seen since the mid-1990s.

"We're currently down 1,400 officers from our high in 2019," McDonnell said. "Our officers are doing an awful lot with less every day."

The City Council approved a motion to hire 240 more officers in the budget approved earlier this year. Mayor Bass spoke about the issue with KNX News.

"Bottom line is that in LA, we are getting ready to lose 400-500 officers from retirement," Bass said in her interview with KNX. We are six months away from the World Cup. The last thing in the world we can do is

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