An LBPD K9 unit also responded and searched the residence...but didn't locate any suspects. Sgt. Zabel says multiple rooms were ransacked and the victims suffered significant loss. The latest ELB residential burglary comes just weeks after the City Council approved a FY15 budget (recommended by exiting Mayor Bob Foster and entering Mayor Robert Garcia) that didn't restore budgeted police officers for taxpayers after Council adopted budgets from FY10-14 let officer levels fall by roughly 200 officers. The FY15 adopted budget does include an increase of $350,000, successfully sought by 3rd district Councilwoman Suzie Price (overcoming initial resistance from Vice Mayor Suja Lowenthal), to help LBPD deal with residential burglaries. Long Beach taxpayers currently receive a Council-budgeted level of citywide deployable sworn officers (not counting officers contracted to the Port, Airport, LBTransit, LBUSD, LBCC which are paid by those entities) roughly equivalent per capita to what Los Angeles would have if its Mayor and Council cut roughly 30% of LAPD officers. Despite the "Great Recession, both Los Angeles (L.A. County's largest city) and Signal Hill (one of its smallest) continue to provide their taxpayers with significantly higher budgeted per capita sworn police levels than Long Beach (L.A. County's second largest city.)
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