{"id":303230,"date":"2026-05-06T22:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303230\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:09:07","slug":"live-updates-l-a-mayors-debate-between-bass-pratt-and-raman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303230\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: L.A. mayor&#8217;s debate between Bass, Pratt and Raman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Nithya Raman declared \u2018Defund the police.\u2019 Now she says L.A. shouldn\u2019t lose more cops <\/p>\n<p>Two days after her surprise entry into the Los Angeles mayor\u2019s race, Nithya Raman staked out her position on public safety, saying she doesn\u2019t want the Police Department to lose more officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to maintain the size of our police force and grapple with the fact that even the size of our existing police force is not enough to respond to 911 calls in a timely fashion,\u201d she said Monday in an interview with NBC Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nithya Raman declared \u2018Defund the police.\u2019 Now she says L.A. shouldn\u2019t lose more cops Two days after her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[12858,10800,1409,1493,4132,48,52,51,47,12305,50,49,63,346,592,36877,2211,32081,3293,1522,72],"class_list":["post-303230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bass","tag-change","tag-city","tag-homelessness","tag-karen-bass","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-city-hall","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-office","tag-people","tag-pratt","tag-race","tag-raman","tag-thousand","tag-voter","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}