(Oklahoma City, OK) Oklahoma City’s police union president says the optics of cutting funds for five officers “are not good.” The Police Department’s proposed fiscal 2021 budget would eliminate funding for five currently vacant sworn positions, saving $419,625.
The proposed cut comes just two years after the city council won voters’ approval of a quarter-cent sales tax increase by promising, in part, to add 129 officers. While the proposal is to cut funding for positions that are authorized but unfilled, it would have the effect of reducing the pool of money available for saturation policing.
