Alissa, Rachel, Mike, and Godfrey discuss how LA’s Unarmed Model of Crisis Response had a very successful first year of diverting 911 calls away from LAPD. What is the Save Our Services campaign claiming to prevent budget cuts and why is Airbnb behind it? And a debate about housing between Scott Wiener and Imelda Padilla highlights all the ways LA’s leaders weaponize land-use decisions.

LA City’s Unarmed Model of Crisis Response program is assessed in a year in review report which shows that 6,700 calls were diverted from 911 dispatch and fewer than 4.1% of calls required police backup

“This is a cost-saving measure in addition to a life-saving measure. It would be really great to have a system built out by then to be able to absorb the shock of our emergency management systems.” Godfrey in the LA Times about the importance of unarmed crisis for upcoming megaevents

Meanwhile, homicides may be going down, but police shootings are up over last year

The Trump administration is trying to financially punish jurisdictions that have eliminated cash bail

“As he publicly mocks concerns that crime in California is out of control, Gov. Gavin Newsom is also surging law enforcement resources across the state,” CalMatters reports

LA Times: Airbnb pushes ‘Save Our Services’ campaign for more short-term rentals in LA

"They're taking up the fact that we almost had such disastrous layoffs as a cover for this. It's a little bit frustrating, to be totally frank." Roy Samaan, president of Engineers & Architects Association, told LAist

What the city and state should be doing to actually rein in illegal rentals

Why is Airbnb doing this? Here’s one reason: the number of listings are dropping

Alissa writes about the reasonable demands of the Fair Games coalition, including asking the IOC and FIFA to drop Airbnb as a global sponsor

Pod Save America: “The Abundance Debate Hits California,” an SB 79 debate between State Senator Scott Wiener (YIMBY) and Councilmember Imelda Padilla (NIMBY),

The face host Jon Lovett made when Padilla said she made a 100% affordable project slash the number of housing units

Max Dubler on how Padilla "accidentally told the truth” about LA housing policy: “In reality, city councilors try to keep the zoning as restrictive as possible, so that it’s basically impossible to actually build anything viable while following all of the rules”

After we recorded, Padilla defended her remarks at Friday’s council meeting

Listen to last week’s episode for more on SB 79

Come see Alissa on a panel with Fair Games coalition members at LAANE’s Medaling in Justice event Sunday, September 7 at 4:30 p.m., RSVP for details

Listen to a re-broadcast episode of Mike’s What’s Next, Los Angeles featuring Kent Wong of the UCLA Labor Center

This week’s episode is produced by Olive Greenspan (also a Virgo)

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