The cost of living is so exorbitant in Los Angeles that officials are trying to lure new police officers there with a rent subsidy to patch a hole of 662 vacancies.
The Los Angeles Police Department, which has seen a mass exodus of officers amid the"defund the police" movement and progressive laws stripping them of enforcement powers, had 9,352 sworn officers as of May 7, compared to 10,014 in September 2017, said Dennis Zine, a retired LAPD sergeant and city councilman.
“We had ‘defund the police,’ then Black Lives Matter jumped in saying, ‘We don’t need the police,’” Zine told the Washington Examiner. “The whole focus was to turn this into a social experiment. Police officers need respect, and that went out the window. So why would I want to be a police officer and get shot at? It doesn’t pay.”
But a $70,000 starting salary for new officers doesn’t go very far in this environment. Enter the private sector, which plans to create stipends for recruits who don’t have relatives to house them or a second job to pay the rent. Approximately $1 million has been raised in the past two months by real estate and financial firms to create the fund. The stipends will go directly toward rent, which tops out at $3,000 for a one-bedroom apartment. Recruits can afford approximately $1,500 per month, Soboroff said.
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