{"id":765899,"date":"2026-05-01T12:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/765899\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:15:29","slug":"l-a-city-council-district-3-voter-guide-gaspar-vs-girvan-vs-celona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/765899\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. City Council District 3 voter guide: Gaspar vs. Girvan vs. Celona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>The candidates are largely in sync on big-picture public safety issues. All three support Mayor Karen Bass\u2019 <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2023-04-17\/mayor-karen-bass-calls-for-9500-lapd-officers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">long-term goal<\/a> of restoring the Los Angeles Police Department to 9,500 officers. (Last month, it had 8,640.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Gaspar,<\/b> 44, thinks that goal doesn\u2019t go far enough. He wants the department to have 10,000 officers, which it last had in 2020. He points to his own experience from a few years ago when his family\u2019s home was burglarized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I called 911, this is no exaggeration, I was on hold for 30 minutes before I got a person. Thirty full minutes,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is something that points to the city being broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Worth Girvan,<\/b> 42, said she too wants the LAPD to return to 10,000 officers, a goal <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/la-xpm-2013-jan-08-la-me-lapd-size-20130108-story.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first accomplished in 2013<\/a> by former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was her boss for several years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Celona,<\/b> 46, was less specific about the number of officers needed but voiced general support for the mayor\u2019s hiring goal.<\/p>\n<p>All three also spoke in favor of the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2023-08-23\/lapd-union-contract-is-approved-by-the-city-council\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pay increases<\/a> Bass negotiated with the city\u2019s police union, which critics have derided as too expensive. Supporters say the pay hikes will keep officers, particularly new hires, from being lured away by other law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have met with many LAPD officers, and what they they tell me consistently is that they train here, but then we lose them,\u201d Worth Girvan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; The candidates are largely in sync on big-picture public safety issues. All three support Mayor Karen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":765900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[852,158357,1582,276,11125,313488,66372,6279,7265,313486,2961,224,5337,43416,3546,6176,313487,6511,7827,313485],"class_list":["post-765899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-affordable-housing","tag-ballots","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-candidates","tag-century-city-law-firm","tag-city-attorney","tag-district","tag-homelessness","tag-kuehl","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-officers","tag-people","tag-race","tag-use-attorney","tag-yaroslavsky","tag-years","tag-yebri"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116499272863094217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}