{"id":3047,"date":"2010-03-10T09:07:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2010-03-15T14:02:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T18:02:04","slug":"police-funding-toronto-increases-budget-reduces-staffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/police-funding-toronto-increases-budget-reduces-staffing\/","title":{"rendered":"Police funding: Toronto increases budget, reduces staffing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto&#8217;s police force is going to have to cut back on the number of officers on the beat, in spite of a <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/blogs\/toronto\/archive\/2010\/03\/10\/budget-restrictions-mean-fewer-police-on-the-job-toronto-chief-says.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">$33 million budget increase<\/a> since last year:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At an emergency meeting at police headquarters, the board voted to find temporary savings, which would bring spending down to the $888.1-million approved by the city in February, avoiding a clash over a $5.9-million disparity.<\/p>\n<p>Police Chief Bill Blair said even temporary budget reductions would mean fewer officers on staff, and concerns about a reduction in the force\u2019s effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, this is what you need to fund these service levels. The city doesn\u2019t want to come back and say, \u2018cut police officers,\u2019 because politically, that is a difficult thing to suggest,\u201d Chief Blair said.  \u201cBut what they instead say is, \u2018We won\u2019t give you enough money to pay their salaries.\u2019 So inevitably we have to cut the number of police officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s budget was $854.8 million. So an increase to &#8220;only&#8221; $888.1 million means automatic cutbacks to staffing levels. That must make sense to someone, but it seems like only in the public sector can an increase in funding go hand-in-hand with a decrease in provided services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto&#8217;s police force is going to have to cut back on the number of officers on the beat, in spite of a $33 million budget increase since last year: At an emergency meeting at police headquarters, the board voted to find temporary savings, which would bring spending down to the $888.1-million approved by the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,53],"tags":[509,98,207],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-cancon","category-politics","tag-civilservice","tag-police","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-N9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}