Move to redirect $15 million from police criticized as both insufficient and threatening public safety
The D.C. Council’s Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety unanimously approved a plan to reduce the $533 million police budget proposed by Mayor Muriel E. Bowser by cutting vacant positions and rejecting an expansion of the police cadet program. The committee also voted to cut the department’s capital budget and reallocate funds to alternative violence-reduction programs.
Allen’s office said the overall police budget would grow in part because of a pre-negotiated raise for officers. Violent crime in the District is down about 12 percent this year, driven by fewer robberies. But homicides are up 10 percent over this time in 2019, a year that saw theTroy Donté Prestwood, an elected advisory neighborhood commissioner in Anacostia, said his constituents often ask for more police, not less.
Even council member David Grosso , who has called for Newsham’s resignation and the police force’s reduction, said the city does not have the “political will” right now to radically alter its approach.“Without the mayor’s support, you are not going to see major changes,” Grosso said. “There are too many people still stuck in the old ways of a law-and-order kind of approach.”Bowser has defended D.C.
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