The Oakland City Council fixed its $83 million budget deficit last night by making a series of wide-ranging cuts, including slashing the police department budget by 10 percent, according to the Trib. The 10 percent reduction mirrored agreements that the city reached with other public employee unions, which have all agreed to take the equivalent of 10 percent cuts in compensation. The police department likely will be forced to put cops on unpaid furlough to achieve the 10 percent cut — unless the police union agrees to compensation reductions as the other unions did.
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