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or use the talkback feature on the IHeart app. All right, you may have heard in Debra's newscast

that it's kind of a really strange story that broke over the weekend. The LAPD was given a limit

on how many officers it can hire and how much money they could spend on those officers.

And they just went out and hired an extra, an extra 170 officers that they don't have money for.

How does this work?

We go to Michael Monks.

Well, the immersed in the city hall nonsense. The answer according to City Hall is, I don't know.

I don't know how you got, hello LAPD. I don't know how you got to make this decision.

Where is the money coming from? Nobody knows. Nobody knows the answer. This came up in last week's city council budget committee meeting. And the city administrator was presenting his first of what will be four quarterly presentations on the state of the city's finances. You may recall, John, last spring the city revealed that it was facing a billion dollar budget deficit and had to jump through a

lot of hoops in order to close that, including proposing a lot of layoffs, including civilian

positions at the LAPD. Everybody was going to get hit. They managed to save everybody's

jobs by moving money around and maybe moving some people from one department to another. So nobody ended up

losing their jobs. Yeah, but it's going to come back up again next spring. I have no doubt about

that because the financial outlook may not be as dire as it was last year, but it's still poor.

And it's poor because of reasons like this, the oversight. LAPD in that budget had been

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