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Karen Bass: “We just finished negotiating a contract that the LA City…”

Featuring: Karen Bass, Democratic | Mayor of Los Angeles | California

Karen Bass Discusses Los Angeles Retail Theft Task Force and Law Enforcement Strategies

Published August 18, 2023 | Video Starts at 06:38

And so when I put my budget forward, I said I wanted to increase the force back to what I think is the appropriate numbers for a city as large as ours. We just finished negotiating a contract that the LA City Council will vote on next week. That contract calls for $15,000 incentive pay so that we can recruit officers. And let me compare it to Alameda County. (06:38–06:45)

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“For the first time in more than 20 years, we have dropped below 9,000 officers.”
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“We have established an organized retail theft task force.”
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“Many of the same individuals were able to bring the smash and grabs as well as the home robberies to a halt in 2021.”
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“These crimes do not fall anywhere near [Proposition 47 or the no bail policies].”
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“These will be prosecuted as felonies.”
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“The items that were sold in some cases were worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
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“We need to look at the online platforms that are essentially receiving stolen goods.”
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“This is a task force of law enforcement. This is not the mayor's task force.”
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“Most of the problems that we face are not just in one jurisdiction. They cross boundaries.”
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“That contract calls for $15,000 incentive pay so that we can recruit officers.”
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“We need to increase our police department.”
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“Having the incentive pay, raising the salary so we can be competitive.”
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“Having bonuses so officers don't retire.”
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“I have called for preventing crime and have invested a lot of resources in our Office of Community Safety.”
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“Addressing crime when it happens and stopping it, but also investing the resources so the crimes never take place to begin with.”
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