LA City Hall budget crisis - City Chief Admin Officer report (h/t @DavidZahniser ) says LAPD might need to lay off 900+ officers and 700+ non-sworn staff — aiming for 8,800 officers and 2,143 non-sworn. @nbcla

Deepest cuts proposed on paper to date. Mayor Garcetti’s office says - via spox - “Layoffs are a last resort, & the Mayor is doing everything possible to avoid them. But without assistance from Washington and solutions from our employees, deep and harmful cuts are inevitable.”

LAPD has been managing the $150-million defunding in recent weeks, making final personnel moves and cuts yesterday. We reported last month some units, like specialized sex crimes group at Robbery Homicide Div., being dissolved: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/lapd-svu-defund-the-police-rape-sex-crimes-weinstein/2457891/

This goes far beyond those reductions. CAO says it would cause “significant impacts on public safety” - “reduce the Dept’s capacity to address Part 1 Crimes” - reduced “…crime scene processing…DNA analysis.”

The CAO report lands at a particularly awful time: murders year-to-date up 29%, shootings year-to-date up 32%, per our latest run of crime data.

City Councilman Joe Buscaino - fmr LAPD officer - weighs-in: