By Chuck Carroll, The Imprint, November 5, 2020
Los Angeles County voters have handily approved a ballot measure that requires the county to dedicate at least 10% of its unrestricted funds to youth development and other community investments as well as alternatives to incarceration rather than law enforcement and jail.
In perpetuity.
Measure J was strategically marketed as “Reimagine Los Angeles County” by proponents and shaded by critics as a dangerous and ill-considered step toward “defunding” law enforcement. Its strong approval means that the county must begin to pour hundreds of millions of new dollars a year into such programming, unless the county Board of Supervisors votes at least 4-1 to override the requirement to deal with a declared fiscal emergency.
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