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The one-and-a-half billion-dollar city budget presented to the Common Council Tuesday by Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett cuts spending on the police department.
Barrett’s plan reduces police spending by $430,000, eliminating 120 positions in the department.
Barrett says the reduction would be accomplished through attrition.
Sixty sworn police jobs were already removed from the current budget.
Barrett’s spending plan follows nationwide calls to defund police while thousands march for racial justice.
