#police-budget

#police-budget

The San Jose Police Department pays $55,000 a month to rent an evidence warehouse on Monterey Road. The owner: a San Jose official who votes on police spending. District 6 Councilmember Michael Mulcahy is the managing partner of his private, family-owned real estate firm SDS NexGen Partners, which has leased the warehouse to the city since 2003, according to records obtained by San José Spotlight.

The San Francisco Police and Sheriff's Departments spent more than $350,000 in overtime monitoring three protests against ICE raids and Donald Trump in June.

Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, is the only minister yet to agree a spending settlement with the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, which could impact police funding.

The Met is already struggling to cope as any response team officer will tell you. If more cuts are on the way, then its ability to hold the thin blue line will diminish and London will be facing a crimewave.