Mayor Karen Bus, Mayor of Los Angeles, sold as a wise investment to re -growth the Los Angeles Police to 9,500 members before the election in 2022, when the salaries of a general police officer in the city were raised last year.

For several months, the bus and the leaders of the Los Angeles police have continued to show optimistic prospects for achieving their goals.

But behind the scenes, the authorities are starting to face the reality that the Los Angeles police will not increase immediately -on the other hand, the third largest police station in Japan may continue to shrink further. I admit.

According to the ministry’s new predictions included in the 2026 fiscal year budget, executives lose more than 150 police officers between the lack of recruitment and the reduction of personnel, and about 8,620 units remain by June 30, 2026. I am expecting. This is the lowest deployment in about 30 years. , The record is shown.

Mr. Bus and the leaders of the Los Angeles Police Jim McDonnell, including the Chief of Jim McDonnell, argued that the department still needs to grow in public, and claims that more personnel need to maintain public safety. The recent Parisese fire has indicated that the department may be scarce in the event of a large -scale disaster. On the other hand, the coming World Cup and the Olympics are approaching security issues.

However, even if LAPD is getting smaller, the city is becoming safe, despite the opposition of the public. According to police station data, many kinds of violent crimes, especially murder and shooting, are decreasing, and has been declining for several years since the increase in pandemics.

Los Angeles’ leaders have many years, how many police officers are needed to patrol the vast territory of the city, from Wilminton to San Fernando Valley. Historically, the number of personnel has been increased, but some people are wondering if recent crime tendency has led to the fact that recent reduction in personnel has actually led to the appropriate size of the department.

Some officials have stated that if the number of police officers in patrol and other duties decreases, it will be difficult to maintain recent crime decline. They argue that not only will the waiting time to 911 will be longer, but that some crimes will not be resolved due to the lack of investigators, and both will impair society’s trust.

It is not only LA who is struggling to hire and maintain police officers. Similar to other major cities police agencies, the Los Angeles Police is facing strict competitions over top candidates from other suburban laws and private sector.

In recent years, the ministry has begun to provide a contract bonus to attract applicants, and has begun to provide additional incentives to incumbent employees renting and purchasing houses in the city. In addition, advertising advertisements on Tiktok and other social media platforms to strengthen marketing budgets and reach young candidates who tend to have a good view of law execution agencies compared to the elders. There is.

Authorities are also considering re -employment of recent retired officers and increasing the number of civilians who take over the office work currently being performed. According to recent polls, most Angeleno people are little interest in reducing the department.

The latest police agreement, which was ratified in the fall of 2023, raised nearly 13 % of police officers, guaranteeing a 3 % increase in four years. The Los Angeles Police’s starting salary is now over $ 86,000, higher than Pasadena, Long Beach and Barbank, but still lower than Beverly Hills and Santa Monica.

The city council approved the raising of the salary by pushing the opposition of activists and some city officials. They argue that they do not significantly increase their hiring, but to sacrifice other basic services such as parking and road pavement.

Some of the people who expressed concerns include the city council members, Nitia Rerman, and said they voted opposed because they could not be convinced that the Los Angeles police would solve the real problem. People are not simply visiting the law execution agencies as before. pay.

“We don’t seriously work on the fact that a large amount of money to the Los Angeles police has not seen any further results or an increase in personnel,” she said.

Rerman is now an obsession with hiring more police officers, so research has been to regional -led programs, which shows that it is effective in dealing with the fundamental causes of crime. He said that it was hindering the development and long -term investment.

“We need a comprehensive alternative response,” said Rerman, a member of the new special council committee on strengthening the means to replace the police. “The conversation has not been done yet.”

Since the large -scale protest after the George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis in 2020, the budget of the ministry’s billions of dollars has been increasing, rather than being discontinued. In a sense, the Los Angeles Police resembles some rational troops promoted by some reformists. Low -level arrests and traffic suspensions have declined dramatically, and the shortage of personnel has to focus on responding and solving violent crimes.

The Los Angeles Police also faces the reduction of personnel. Watts uprising in 1965 caused a surge in employment, but in the late 1970s, the city’s finances were reduced by the passage of 13 tax reduction rates, and the ministry’s position was shrinked by hundreds of employees. For the next few years, Daryl Gates, the chief of the time, worked to expand the police station to 8,500 to respond to the population growth of the city. The voters opposed them and repeatedly refused Gates’ support bills to raise the police rank by fixed property tax.

However, the recovery of the police recovered during the peak of the 1980s of the drug war, and the 1991 black driver Rodney King Assault was innocent after four Los Angeles police officers were acquitted. It increased again. Immediately after Mayor Richard Rio -dan took office, the successive mayors and police chiefs were the symbolic, right after the appointment of recovering the order of the city by expanding the police officers of the city of Los Angeles to 10,000. He has been following the standard for 20 years.

Professor Max Felker -Cantant, a Ball State University, studying the history of the department, said that the Los Angeles Police Office often uses a way to claim if the police are needed. Ta.

He said that the officials have long been stuck to the size of the department, compared to the New York Police and the Chicago Police, which have many police officers around the historic small area. According to him, the unit has a deeply “rooted” and affects the “aggressive” police style that depends on the technology such as helicopters and predictive police software. It is said.

According to the Los Angeles Police Expenditure Plan, it is expected that 585 new employees will be added in 13 school classes next year, which will hire 45 new police officers every month. Has not achieved the same department for years. At the most recent academy graduation ceremony this month, only 21 police officers crossed the stage, but were relocated to a concern about air pollution caused by the rampage in the vicinity.

The Los Angeles police officers in accordance with the Times newspaper are almost constantly doing to maintain the minimum patrol, and according to internal documents, two squads in divisions such as Central, Wilshire, and Lampert. It is indicated that eight are necessary. Hundreds of police officers take permanent vacation due to injury or illness, and dozens are assigned to various specialized units, and the shortage of staff is worse.

Experts who are studying police officers have said that police stations nationwide are facing the same issue of losing police officers earlier than police officers. Experts are enhanced by police officers, their salaries are relatively lower than other occupations with low danger, and lack of general interest in public servants. It is the reason why the number of people who find a job is decreasing.

Another explanation is given on a lady page featuring the issue of the Los Angeles police police. That is, there are too many administrative procedures in the recruitment process. The forums are mostly anonymous posts on the applicants who are dissatisfied with the fact that the contact from the identity will take months.

Some officials have stated that it is too early to determine the effects of police raising, and will ultimately lead to recovery in police reductions.

The Police Committee Chairman Erol Southers has many times in public, saying that the high reputation of the police station is continuing to attract police officers, and the number of applicants in recent months is recorded. I pointed out something.

In an interview last year, Southers said, “We don’t intend to accept anyone, so that’s fine.”

Former Los Angeles -gun. George Guscon was a person who used to be an executive of the Los Angeles Police before, and was involved in increasing the 10,000 police officers in the same department in 2011, but as at that time, the goal was “Extreme without actual science. It is an arbitrary number. ” Behind it. “

He states, “There is no clear formula that this is the number of police officers,” and an agreement among experts has agreed on how police placement levels will affect. He pointed out that it was not obtained.

At least in the short term, even if the number of police officers decreases, costs will not be reduced. Division, which is short of personnel, will eventually spend millions of dollars on overtime pay, and may be in danger of paying for future expensive payments.

While the Los Angeles Deputy Secretary -General John McMahon acknowledges that the Los Angeles has been shrinking, emerging skills can help improve efficiency while each department has to do more efforts with less effort. He said that he was sex. Due to the shortage of human resources, police officers need to respond to witnesses and collect monitoring videos for hours, which means that there is almost no time to spend in discretionary execution, which is useful for deterring criminal acts. Was described.

He has been conducting a lobby activity in search of the establishment of a real -time crime center for several months, but the center monitor many cameras from all over the city and live video from a license plate reader, and responds to emergency situations. It is said to provide timely information. According to him, in recent months, authorities have begun to consider expanding drones, as in cities such as Beverly Hills.

Some police surveillance organizations such as STOP LAPD SPYING COALITION are concerned about the “techno -solving” of the department, that is, all social issues can be solved by digital technology. They have warned that such expansion of police authority has led to a historical, especially in colored community, and has led to violations of privacy and large -scale surveillance.

McDonnell, a new head of the Los Angeles Police, also states that one of the people who promotes the increase in police officers, but also supports changes in the number of staffing.

McDonnell said, one of the approval hearings, to the city council to increase police officers to “strengthen” local security. Police officers are required to get off the car and get involved with the residents, rather than hurrying 911 reports one after another.

“We are currently working on the limit,” said McDonnel. “However, its efficiency is realized at the expense of the philosophy of local community police activities.”

Times paper staff writer David Znizer contributed to the report.