They're going to let 200 more positions go unfilled, in addition to those not filled today, to pay the department's legal and retirement bills. The other options are put everyone in Metro on Obamacare with no subsidy, go to all pool cars and pay on-call people mileage instead, and replace nearly all sworn spots that don't involve making arrests with civilians costing less. LMPD leadership and a handful of d-bags brought most of the financial wreckage on the department. The officers who WEREN'T involved