The first draft of San Antonio's budget for fiscal year 2021 proposes more funding for the police, much to the annoyance of anti-police activists. City staff presented a budget proposal of nearly three-billion-dollars to City Council on Thursday.
There were spending cuts to deal with the pandemic, but a proposed increase of more than $8 million for the San Antonio Police Department. Police reform activists who have been demanding that the police be defunded are vocal in their disappointment with the proposal.