LinkLinks Salah Czapary in The Post: No one asked for fewer D.C. police doing more work By Editor On Apr 15, 2022 Last updated Apr 15, 2022 116 Share In June 2020, the D.C. Council voted to reduce the police budget by $15 million, which limited the hiring of new D.C. police officers. The council promised that those funds would then be reallocated to alternative, non-police responses. The budget cuts came into effect in October that year. Eighteen months later, D.C. police are down approximately 280 officers and detectives while, compared with 2021, the city faces an increase in overall violent crime of about 28 percent, a 55 percent increase in robberies, an 18 percent increase in carjackings and, as of 2021, the highest number of homicides in nearly two decades. 116 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
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