A resolution to cut the Milwaukee Police Department budget by 10 percent will go before the city’s Common Council at its Tuesday meeting.
Alderman Jose Perez authored the resolution and says 11 of the 15 council members have signed on to support it. If passed, it wouldn’t affect this year’s funding.
That would be done in the 2021 budget which is adopted in November. Perez says the resolution would ask the city’s budget office to study what would happen if the 10 percent reduction occurs.
He wants the money taken from the police to be re-allocated to housing, the city Health Department, the Office of Violence Prevention, and the Fire and Police Commission.
Ten percent of the department budget would be a little under 30 million dollars.
