Christy Smith tweets support for defunding the police

In case you missed it, Christy Smith tweeted her support of the LA City Council and LA County Board of Supervisors’ decision to slash LAPD and LA County Sheriff’s budgets. 

Smith had previously been silent on the LA City Council and LA County Board of Supervisors’ efforts to defund the police.

If you think Smith’s defund the police excuse of “budgets are being slashed everywhere” sounds familiar, it’s because she said the exact same thing about firing teachers.  

Here is some of what is being slashed from the LAPD and LA County Sheriff’s budgets: 

LA Times: Budget cuts will take LAPD ranks below 10,000 officers

KTLA: L.A. cuts LAPD spending by $150 million, taking police staffing to lowest level in more than a decade

LA Times: Proposal slashes L.A. County Sheriff’s Department budget by $162 million

Fox News: LA County officials push plan to close aging Men’s Central Jail in ‘care first, jails last’ approach

CBS LA: Sheriff Warns LA County Cuts Will Eliminate Sexual Assault Investigations Unit

New York Times: Los Angeles School District Cut Its Police Budget, Then the Chief Resigned