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The spiraling race hysteria had led to serious harassment of both the families of Metcalf and Anthony.

Those rising personnel costs are one of several factors compounding the city’s budget crisis, including the financial toll of the January wildfires and subsequent recovery efforts, spiraling legal payouts and a weakening national economy.

“There’s clearly unease about the homeless situation, which seems to be continually spiraling out of control. There’s concern about crime,” South said.

Those reductions are meant to address a budget crisis triggered by spiraling legal payouts, a weakening economy and rising personnel costs, which were driven further upward by the fires.

And it is now spiraling out of control.