LOS ANGELES—City Councilman Paul Koretz announced Oct. 27 that he was providing $250,000 in overtime funding for the Los Angeles Police Department.
The funds will come from Koretz’s office, which said the councilman has provided $750,000 in the police department’s overtime funding to date.
Koretz said the funds will help lower crime rates.
Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz attends a ceremony Proclaiming September 7, 2018 as the official “Step Up To Cancer” Day in City Hall in Los Angeles, Calif., on Aug. 29, 2018. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
“We did something similar, particularly on Melrose [Avenue] when we had a spike in crime and we were able to make that area much safer and reduce those [crime] numbers dramatically,” Koretz said to KNX….