Los Angeles needs more cops; city squanders money elsewhere
Opinion Los Angeles needs more cops; city squanders money elsewhere By Gale Hammons and Jon Fleischman Published July 25, 2026, 10:52 p.m. Add The California Post on Google Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell just put an extraordinary number on what it would take to adequately police America’s second-largest city: 12,500 officers. “We’re not even in that ballpark,” McDonnell told the California Post in an exclusive interview.
- ▪Opinion Los Angeles needs more cops; city squanders money elsewhere By Gale Hammons and Jon Fleischman Published July 25, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
- ▪Add The California Post on Google Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell just put an extraordinary number on what it would take to adequately police America’s second-largest city: 12,500 officers.
- ▪“We’re not even in that ballpark,” McDonnell told the California Post in an exclusive interview.
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