Just when one might assume that the depth of incompetence and mismanagement could not possibly go any lower, the whistleblowers have begun to speak out. An anonymous Instagram whistleblower who regularly reports on the Los Angeles Fire Department leaked an internal memo this morning that Mayor Karen Bass will wish had never come to light.
The internal LAFD memo briefed fire chiefs in the jurisdiction that Bass wanted cuts of close to $50 million in this budget cycle. That would be in addition to the $17 million that Bass had already cut out of their resources this cycle, and would have forced the closure of more than a dozen fire stations. And Bass demanded that just days before devastating wildfires began breaking out in Los Angeles, and before the water ran out:
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass demanded her Fire Department make an extra $49million of budget…
