this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
11 points (100.0% liked)
They Did The Math
68 readers
1 users here now
Community for examples and discussion of using maths to calculate things.
Academic, esoteric, and silly topics are all welcome, so long as the maths is sound!
founded 2 weeks ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Looks like a high estimate. Regardless, these kinds of public services are necessary, it'll have to be paid somehow.
But also.. aren't these financial reports public?
I don't know the first thing about LA, but I don't see how the finances wouldn't be public.
I think another way to look at it is whether this well spent money, aka the Defund the Police angle. You could have a working Social Services department doing a lot more good with some of that money. That way social workers could actually prevent crime instead of sending police after the fact to shoot, beat, and arrest marginalized people.
Every time that happens there's people yelling that that's unfair to those who are well off