Continuing to Drive Down Homelessness Maintaining Inside Safe, all interim housing beds and street level services to continue Mayor Bass’ work that has brought street homeless down by nearly 18 percent. Increasing funding to address RV encampments. Increasing funding for oversight, transparency, and accountability. Bolstering Public Safety Increasing police hiring to 510 new officers. This represents a target of 8,555 officers this year and the maintaining of Mayor Bass’ long-term goal of 9,500 officers. Training in use-of-force, de-escalation and mental health intervention. Mayor Bass is also ensuring that LAPD funding is used strategically and making an impact in the communities that need it most through: Patrols in Downtown L.A. to address retail theft and street takeovers. A dedicated task force to combat copper wire theft. A task force to go after bad actors involved in human trafficking. Security surrounding interim housing shelters. Maintaining funding for LAFD ahead of the Sales Tax Measure, investing in equipment, including a helicopter and vehicles. Maintaining deployment of 500 Crossing Guards. Crime Prevention Sustaining CIRCLE, UMCR, and GRYD services and citywide coverage for civilian crisis response. Expanding the Safe Passage program to help children get to and from school safely and protect them from gang violence. Investing in Infrastructure and Basic City Services Increasing funding for street and sidewalk repair, street sweeping, bulky item pick up, and dedicated illegal dumping enforcement throughout the city. Increasing funding to achieve 700 lane miles of street will be repaired through improvements such as resurfacing, slurry, or large asphalt repairs. Increasing funding by 45% for the assessment and installation of curb ramps across the city. The recently launched Street Lights Initiative will repair and replace up to 60,000 street lights citywide over the next two years at no impact to City’s General Fund. Implementation of Stre…
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But here's a list of priorities the mayor's office shared ahead of the drop
