cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19641276
That does include parking enforcement. Which is done through that half of Townhall. Oh yeah, that’s the other part. They get literally half the real estate of town hall which is delightfully unsubtle.
But yeah, remember specifically that freaking the cops taking on all of these duties, or having these duties thrust upon them outside of their control whatever version of this that you buy into,. Having a whole bunch of unrelated social functions being addressed under the regions of the police forces is the criticism, it’s not some separate part. Why, does parking enforcement or local security or non union road crews get organized and paid from the police department instead of the local government?
For my (Canadian) city:
Total expenses are $207.6 million
Police, Fire Rescue, and Ambulance are listed together at $35.7 million, or 17% of expenses.
The biggest expense is Social Housing and Welfare at $72.5 million or 35% of expenses.
My region breaks it down per property 100k of property value, could get actual numbers but as a % looks like 36.5% for police services for the whole region. Looks like total tax levy is $483 million for the region.
Parks and conservation 1.3%, public health 9.9%, community support 18.1%, transit 7.3%
Actually looking into it, those numbers aren't accurate reflections of total budgets, total budget is closer to a $1 billion with provincial/federal funding and wastewater charges, policing looks to actually make up ~22% of that total, community services ~46% ~14% public health, parks 0.7%, housing ~3.7%, transit ~8.4%.
Gotta say, the breakdown for property taxes as the big summary I'm not a fan of, just give me overall expenses.