Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, City Officials Cutting $100 Million-$150 Million From LAPD Budget, Funds To Be Reinvested In Communities Of Color - Deadline

As he began to speak about reforming the LAPD during his Wednesday evening press conference, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti called this an “urgent moment” for the city, “an inflection point.”.

He said he is “committed to making this moment not just a moment.”.

He said the city must move beyond police reforms of the past.

“We will not be increasing out police budget,” said the mayor.

City Council President Nury Martinez made it official on Wednesday by introducing a motion to cut LAPD funding, “as we reset our priorities in the wake of the murder of #GeorgeFloyd.

The mayor said he would be more specific about where those monies will go in his Thursday night press conference, and that the funding would be distributed “now, not years from now.”

“We need to move toward a guardian-based system,” said the mayor, “by developing long term relationships between our youth and police officers.”

This comes after Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore on Monday compared looters to those officers involved in George Floyd’s death