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Budget committee backs slowing sworn hiring to preserve specialized LAPD civilian jobs
Summary
Committee members discussed a CAO plan to slow LAPD sworn hiring for fiscal 2025‑26 in order to free savings to restore specialized civilian positions LAPD says sworn officers cannot perform.
The budget committee reviewed a CAO recommendation to reduce LAPD sworn hiring in FY25‑26 as a structural offset to restore specialized civilian positions the department said are essential to support sworn officers in the field.
What was proposed: the CAO described an approach to fund fewer academy classes and/or smaller class sizes — for example six classes of 40 recruits instead of 12 classes of 40 — producing immediate fiscal savings (the CAO estimated roughly $9.5 million in the current year)…
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