This problem seems to crop up across many issues. Things like law enforcement, social safety nets, health, transport, etc. All require wide scale planning with

This problem seems to crop up across many issues. Things like law enforcement, social safety nets, health, transport, etc. All require wide scale planning with responsibility resting at least at regional levels, if not state or national levels in some cases. But we aren't set up that way. Case in point, why are there so many cities in the Bay Area? There should be far fewer, at least all of South Bay should be one municipality, but there's seemingly dozens.