LOS ANGELES — Karen Bass wants to hire 500 new LAPD officers while Rick Caruso wants 1,800 more. Bass plans to house 17,000 homeless people in her first year as mayor; he promises 30,000. He excoriates her for accepting free tuition from USC, while she says he broke a promise to spend $1 million backing a pro-choice ballot measure.
This is important stuff, undoubtedly. I've listened, I've considered, I've compared.
But at the end of the day, when I walk into my polling station on Nov. 8 to help choose a new mayor of Los Angeles, I will vote against Caruso, and not because his vision is so much worse than hers or because I think 500 new cops is more appropriate than 1,800.
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