Newsom proposes defunding police, prisons, public safety as California faces massive deficit

[Kyle]

'They're in a panic. They're in a freefall,' Florida's CFO told Fox News

Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., proposed slashing budgets regarding public safety, such as prisons and law enforcement, as the state simultaneously grapples with a crippling deficit and doubles down on climate goals relating to equity.

The California Democrat's proposed budget, released in May, notes that "difficult decisions" are necessary to address the estimated $27.6 billion deficit, which is projected to continue for years to come. It includes a $97 million cut to trial court operations, $10 million to the Department of Justice's Division of Law Enforcement and more than $80 million to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Newsom proposes defunding law enforcement, prisons, public safety as California faces massive deficit

California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes slashing millions from 'public safety' as the Democratic state grapples with a massive budget deficit totaling $37.9 billion.

www.foxnews.com

 

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It includes a $97 million cut to trial court operations, $10 million to the Department of Justice's Division of Law Enforcement and more than $80 million to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

I can understand these cuts and they make perfect california sense. If you don't send criminals to court, don't enforce the laws, and don't incarcerate the crooks why should you fund programs designed to do those things? Newsome is a financial genius!

 

[vraiblonde]

There they go again. Democrats have the worst solutions to the problems they've created. And yet half the country still votes for them....

 

[Hijinx]

There they go again. Democrats have the worst solutions to the problems they've created. And yet half the country still votes for them....

Yes: but Democrats vote for people like Newsom because he is doing what they want him to do.
Passing out entitlements, getting rid of the police, closing the courts. This is what the criminal element wants, and that is the Newsom voting block.

 

[Kyle]

Yes: but Democrats vote for people like Newsom because he is doing what they want him to do.
Passing out entitlements, getting rid of the police, closing the courts. This is what the criminal element wants, and that is the Newsom voting block.

They want to live in a third-world $hithole... Let em.

 

[vraiblonde]

They want to live in a third-world $hithole... Let em.

That's the way I feel about it, but then they want a federal bailout - and that's OUR money. Or their mental patient residents run away to MY town and start voting for the crap all over again.

 

[Bare-ya-cuda]

But I thought California had this enormous GDP compatible to some small countries!! At least according to hemi and SMC. So much for that utopia.

 

[thurley42]

Newsom says 'don't ever confuse' him with 'defund police movement'

California Gov. Gavin Newsom took a definitive stance against the progressive "defund the police" movement in a virtual interview with a number of California news outlets this week.

www.foxnews.com

I realize 2-3 years is a lifetime in dem BS, but damn.