The Los Angeles Police Department is requesting nearly $100 million in city funds for vehicles and equipment for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, more than two years out from the world’s largest sporting event coming to L.A.
LAPD wants to buy around 500 vehicles and “mobile units,” including 300 patrol vehicles, vans and an armored SUV worth half a million dollars. It also is requesting funds for an upgraded radio network and equipment including new computers and more than 1,600 body cameras. In total, it’s asking for around $96 million.
The request raises questions about promises that the Olympics will be “no-cost” for taxpayers. The spending laid out in the police department’s proposed budget for 2026-2027 names the city as the funding source.
If Cali had any balls they’d fucking cancel it
Say that they can not guarantee the safety of the athletes or visitors, so in good conscience they need to cancel immediately in hopes a safe country can host in time.
Newsom only cares about money, there’s too many chances to gift off it for him to cancel under any circumstances.
If they’re going to do that, they should wait till the last minute. Otherwise Trump will have time to move it to another location in the US.
These are expenses LAPD foresees anyway but using the Olympics to justify it means they don’t have to pay for it from their 2028 budget.
I think I know.
Who’s on first?
