Street activist, congresswoman - mayor? Karen Bass reaches for LA's top job

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : The Community Coalition was a multiracial group of activists focused on immediate neighborhood issues, from organizing to stop liquor stores that had been destroyed during the 1992 riots from being rebuilt, to fighting against a law that barred undocumented immigrants from using public services, to shaming local officials into funding millions of dollars of repairs to the disgusting bathrooms in local public schools.
45% : He said he supports spending "a substantial amount of money" on continuing to train officers, and said he wondered if cutting the police budget would end up in reductions of funding for police-department adjacent prevention programs and victims' compensation.
15% : Bass has criticised "lopsided" local budget priorities that pour money into law enforcement while not investing in social services that may prevent crises in the first place.

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