Law enforcement’s crackdown on recent protests across Los Angeles has cost the city more than $17 million — with the price tag likely to keep ballooning.
The Los Angeles Police Department has played a critical role in violently shutting down protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement across the city since the Department of Homeland Security began executing immigration raids at local workplaces on June 6. According to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, immigration agents arrested more than 300 immigrants in Southern California between June 6 and June 11.
At the ensuing anti-ICE demonstrations, the LAPD has arrested 575 people and shot hundreds of crowd-control munitions. As of June 16, the city had spent more than $17.2 million on the LAPD’s response to protests, according to L.A. City Controller Kenneth Mejia. That is roughly four times the amount of funding allotted to the city’s Emergency Management Department for the entire fiscal year.
