In 2024/25, spending on provincial policing will increase by $28.6 million, from $270.6 million in 2023/24 to almost $300 million this year.

Since the last budget was approved, the Winnipeg Police Service has killed 9 people, and hurt, traumatized, and criminalized countless others.

A $31 million raise to the WPS over four years is a total affront to the supposedly “tough decisions” being demanded of almost every other city service, as well as a refusal of empirical evidence about the lack of relationship between policing and safety.