People's Budget Calculator - Defund the Police

People’s Budget Calculator

The People’s Budget Calculator empowers members of the public to create budget proposals for community-based programs and calculate how much the police department budget would need to be cut in order to fund them.

City Information

City *

State *

Total Full-Time Officers *

This field is pre-populated based on your city and state according to our database. You can customize if you have different data.

Average Officer Salary: *

Estimate the annual salary of an average police officer. $70,000 is a good estimate.

Average Officer Benefit Rate *

Estimate the % rate for employee benefits. If you don’t know, 35% is a good estimate.

Project Narrative

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Budget Calculator:

Itemize the costs of your program by putting each component of your program on its own line. Note that for personnel line items, the selected employee benefit % will be included.

	Description	Category	Unit Cost	Quantity	Line Total
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Budget Subtotal

subtotal

Grant Information

	Grant Name	Grant Amount	Line Total
1			-$0
1			-$0

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Grant Subtotal

Total Grants

Cost to City

Cost

A People’s Proposal For

Total Full-Time Officers:

Average Officer Salary:

Average Officer Benefit Rate:

Budget Breakdown

Total Budget

Total Grants

Cost to City

Personnel

Supplies

Subgrant

Services

Reduction of Police Budget

Cut to number of full-time police positions

Number of positions cut as a percentage of total full-time positions

Recommendation:

To pay for this program the city should consider reducing the number of police officers.

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