Mark Cuban Pledges $1 Million To Dallas Police For LGBT Efforts - Huffington Post

Mark Cuban has responded to the June 12 mass shooting in Orlando, Florida in a really huge method. 

Within the wake of the tragedy, the billionaire businessman and proprietor of the Dallas Mavericks will donate $1 million to the Dallas police division in an effort to raised shield the town's LGBT group, CNN reports. The donation will probably be used to fund further patrols in Dallas's Oak Lawn neighborhood, which boasts a large LGBT group, in addition to an estimated an estimated 16,000 hours of additional time for officers to reinforce counter-terrorism efforts throughout the town. 

In a press release, the 57-year-old entrepreneur said that he was "proud to have the ability to assist the town of Dallas." 

In the meantime, Dallas Police Chief David Brown praised the trouble, vowing to "earmark and monitor the expenditure of those funds to make sure its efficient use in making a protected setting" for the town's LGBT residents. 

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings echoed these sentiments, praising Cuban as "a person of motion." 

"As soon as once more, Mark has demonstrated his devotion to his metropolis by stepping up in a time of want," he stated in a press release. 

Cuban has been an outspoken advocate of the LGBT group for fairly a while. In 2014, he praised NBA player Jason Collins, who turned the first openly gay male player to play in a serious U.S. skilled sport, noting, "I feel it is no huge deal and that’s precisely the best way it must be." 

Sadly, the transfer comes amidst concerns concerning the remedy of LGBT people by regulation enforcement. A 2015 report revealed by the Williams Institute on the College of California, Los Angeles, cited a 2013 survey which discovered that 48 % of LGBT victims of violence reported experiencing police misconduct.

The UCLA report additionally cited a second survey which discovered that 40 % of homosexual and bisexual male survivors of home violence believed police intervention can be unhelpful or very unhelpful. 

This is to hoping that Cuban's donation will probably be used successfully.