{"id":2146,"date":"2009-10-06T05:45:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T05:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2009-10-06T05:45:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T05:45:45","slug":"the_los_angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2146","title":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Budget Is So Bad…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…that we’re not going to expand the police department<\/a> for a bit:<\/p>\n

Council committees recommend LAPD hiring freeze
\nMembers of the budget and public safety panels agree to discontinue a new recruit class and halt police recruiting efforts.<\/b><\/p>\n

Two committees of the Los Angeles City Council recommended Monday that the city stop hiring police officers starting next month and wait until January to see if the budget picture has improved enough to resume recruitment.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The good news is that there’s plenty of cash for the incompetents at the top<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Outgoing DWP chief Nahai would keep full salary as consultant under proposal<\/b><\/p>\n

Officials at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials plan to give a consulting contract to the outgoing general manager of the power agency that would pay him the same salary he was earning as the DWP’s top executive. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue.
\n–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re an Angelino and not laughing through the tears, you’re not paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}