Debate Begins On Plan to Cut Lapd Budget Discussion: Argument Centers On Keeping Civilian Workers or Officers.

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A City Council panel opened discussions Monday on a proposed series of cutbacks in the LAPD designed to reduce an $88 million budget deficit.

City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana last week proposed eliminating 225 civilian jobs in the Los Angeles Police Department in order to fund the continued hiring of sworn officers. Employee unions, however, have urged the council to scale back hiring and retain the civilian jobs, which they say will actually put more rank- and-file officers on the city's streets.

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Debate Begins On Plan to Cut Lapd Budget Discussion: Argument Centers On Keeping Civilian Workers or Officers.

Gerald Chaleff, who oversees LAPD budgeting, told the Budget and Finance Committee that it is too early ...

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