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The new $70 Million dollar Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center is a multi story 172 square foot facility...just one problem: it's empty. It looks like it will remain empty until they can figure out how to staff the place. Los Angeles is broke...on paper. Their budget is maxed out and there's a hiring freeze and they need at least 44 additional people to run the place.
This is what happens when your tax base shrinks. Taxpayers are replaced by people who get a check in the mail. Isn't there money in California? Of course there is - it's where Hollywood is, right? Los Angeles could get help from the State - sell the jail to the State and lease it for the city.
Oh, that's right...the State's broke too.
This is what happens when your tax base shrinks. Taxpayers are replaced by people who get a check in the mail. Isn't there money in California? Of course there is - it's where Hollywood is, right? Los Angeles could get help from the State - sell the jail to the State and lease it for the city.
Oh, that's right...the State's broke too.
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