Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Audit: Jackson Spent Less on Police as Murders Soared

 As murders soared to record levels in 2020, the Lumumba administration substantially "under-spent" the police budget.  The City Council appropriated $36 million to JPD yet JPD only spent $29 million, a difference of 20%. 

The 2017 audit covers the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2017, the last year of the Yarber administration.* The City Council approved a JPD budget of $33 million.  The final budget was $33.3 million.  However, the city spent $35.1 million on police, a variance of $1.8 million.  Personnel services drove the increase as they were $2.7 million over the budget as JPD splurged on overtime.  


The police budget increased in 2018 to a final budget of $38.5 million, an increase of $1.3 million over the original 2018 JPD budget.  JPD did not take advantage of the budget increase as it spent $2.2 million less than the final budget. The pattern would continue in subsequent years as JPD repeatedly spent less than what the City Council budgeted for police.  


2019 continued on the same path as murders increased to 82 homicides, ranking in the worst five years in Jackson history. 

However, the administration spent far less  on police services than the City Council approved in its budget.  Undoubtedly troubled by skyrocketing crime, the Council originally approved a budget of $35.8 million,  a $3.7 million increase from 2019.  The final budget increased slightly to $36.5 million.  JPD did not take advantage of the budget increase  as it only spent $29 million, $7.4 million less than what was budgeted even as murders rose to a grisly 130 homicides in 2020.  The majority of the "under-spending" took place in personnel as JPD spent $6.3 million less than budgeted for personnel services.  (p.118)

The "under-spending" can't be blamed on shrinking revenue.  Jackson's total revenue was $264 million in 2020 and $242 million in 2019.  Even during the covid pandemic, property and sales tax revenue increased by approximately $1 million in 2020. Jackson ended the year in the black.

The 2021 audit has not been completed so it is not known if the troubling trend continued.  


32 comments:

Anonymous said...

You can't fix stupid......

Anonymous said...

Liberal Democrats want crime and chaos. It fuels the culture of hopelessness and dependency makes it easier for them to ply their grifting trade.

Follow the money said...

Where did those million$ go? To FOC (friends of Chowke)?

Anonymous said...

Somebody needs to make a little cash on the side, don't you agree. Organized Crime at work.

Bill Dees said...

As you say, the underspending was on personnel. As you know that just means they haven't hired (couldn't hire) enough officers to meet staffing needs, and the unspent money was for salaries and benefits for the officers they couldn't hire. The problem is getting people to apply to be JPD officers.

Anonymous said...


" As murders soared to record levels in 2020, the Lumumba administration substantially "under-spent" the police budget. The City Council appropriated $36 million to JPD yet JPD only spent $29 million, a difference of difference of 20%. "

Private Gomer Pyle would be a better "mair".




Anonymous said...

What's JPD's overtime policy?

Anonymous said...

Yes, Bill Dees, one (not necessarily 'the') problem is getting police to apply to work for JPD.

But that skips the point of why they won't apply. A true policeperson wants to do things like 'enforce the law', 'arrest criminals', and of course see some positive results from their work.

But with JPD and the culture put over the department - the idea of arresting the crooks, attempting to stop crime through policing as opposed to the so called non-profit community building and counseling process, and once the crooks are arrested they are kept in jail and receive a reasonable trial and punishment should they be found guilty.

None of the above exists in Lumumba world, or in the world of the Hinds County Circuit Court system.

So yes, JPD has trouble hiring cops. Gluckstadt didn't have trouble hiring theirs with 8 applications for every new position. Other surrounding towns/cities can hire plenty of cops so the question is, why don't cops apply for jobs with JPD. But that's not really a question, we all already know the answer.

Anonymous said...

Can the state please take over like Michigan did to Detroit years ago and now Detroit is doing really well.

Anonymous said...

Chances Chok covered this in his list of "What Works" at the conference in Canada?

Anonymous said...

It has been 17 MONTHS, do you think we might get an updated “Annual statement”?

Anonymous said...

With the job market so tight, who in their right F’ing mind would go work for JPD under this admin? You can make more delivering mail.

Anonymous said...

I'd be interested to see what city departments overspent. Admin for the mayor's office? Legal fees defending the decisions re: trash collection?

Anonymous said...

The money wasn’t spent on police personnel, but it was spent. Trips like Paris air show. Numerous “conventions” like Banff Canada, additional “personal”security. With the taxpayers (the ones with income and nice houses) begging people to buy their houses, it does not bode well for the future.

Kingfish said...

Nice to see our favorite JJ hater, Bill the crotch is back. Well, Crotch, its not quite that simple.

That number means they were paying much overtime. They weren't using it to raise the pay of investigators, who are paid the same as patrol. Of course, that might explain why JPD has a half dozen or less investigators. Perhaps you should ask why there is so much attrition at JPD over the last few years? Now JPD officers are often prevented from taking home their cars and have to work 12 hour shifts. Yeah, that's going over real well. Cut the hell out of overtime and make them work shifts that prevent them from working second jobs.

Anonymous said...

Do the officers posted over at Covenant Pres to keep an eye on Mayor Laughingstock's house receive any sort of special pay?

Kingfish said...

JMAA spent money on Paris trip. JMAA budget not part of Jackson budget. Totally separate.

Anonymous said...

Lumumba is not incompetent. Lumumba is working to bring anarchy. Lumumba and his fellow Marxists know that anarchy never persists as it quickly devolves into Totalitarianism.

Lumumba is as crazy as a power crazed fox.

Anonymous said...

5:20, you nailed the solution; but the Republicans must have the guts to pursue it.

Anonymous said...

KF, yes, it's a separate budget, but taxpayer money just the same. It's like my food budget is separate from my utilities budget.

Anonymous said...

Wasn’t the Mayor just complaining he needed more money to hire more cops about a month ago but the state didn’t give it to him?

Anonymous said...

At 4:04 PM Just to be fair don't you think our Republican Governor deserves the same criticism since Mississippi in 2021 ranked number one in crime out of all states !!

Anonymous said...

People like Bill will keep carrying the water for the Lumumba administration, but remain utterly gob-smacked as to why no one is applying for JPD patrol jobs.

If you stop looking at things through skewed liberal lenses, and simply think rationally...you'll see the correlation and the reason the majority of the state does not have the same problems as Chuck's dominion.

Anonymous said...


Which police departments are hiring the most?
The result is the top ten metros with the most demand for police officers, ranked by desirability:
San Francisco. ...
Washington, D.C. ...
Denver, CO. ...
San Diego, CA. ...
Atlanta, GA. ...
Riverside, CA. ...
Houston, TX. ...
Dallas, TX (tie)

Anonymous said...

I love how its partially the Governors fault when Chuck is failing.

Keep that same energy 8:26 if LaBumbles ever does anything remotely good for Jackson and be sure to give Tate some praise.

And don't forget to ask the other Mayors in the state how they manage to budget reasonably and not be the murder mecca without Tate advising them.

Anonymous said...

No one in their right mind wants to be an officer on a force where the mayor can insist you be indicted on a completely baseless charge of murder for just doing your job.

Anonymous said...

8:26 AM
The problem with your comment is that the majority of the violent crime is located in one "city" (if you can even call it that anymore).

Anonymous said...

8:45 AM
Ranked by job desirability or living desirability? Because I think those are diametrically opposed right now.

Anonymous said...

I agree 9:22. That is the city with the majority of the state's crime.

Now explain why that is the case?
Granted its the most densely populated and arguably will therefore have more crime in general.

But what are the other factors that the Mayor can attempt to improve?

Even any real attempt at a action/solution would impressive at this point.
Press conferences, messengers, social workers and balloon releases are not factually not working. So now what?

Anonymous said...

"Granted its the most densely populated and arguably will therefore have more crime in general."

Population density is not a prerequisite for crime, unless that population contains a significant amount of criminals. So, what do you do? Seek them out, arrest them, and keep them locked-up. How do you do it? Hire more LEOs, increase pay and benefits, create task forces to proactively go after gangs, drug dealers, and prostitution. Prosecute cases to the fullest and publicly admonish lenient judges. Crime is not new, nor are most of the tactics needed to combat it.

Anonymous said...

How much more evidence do we need to prove that leftist democrats WANT violence and chaos? It should be widely accepted by now that this is intentional in every urban American city! It doesn’t matter if it is that Lightfoot creature in Chicago, or Chuckles Ludumba. They are all repeating the same political platitudes and applying the same failed political ideology.

Anonymous said...

Dumb ass cracker talking about murders soaring in a country that murdered black people for hundreds of years. Lmaooooooo.



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