This is one of many articles which are trying to suggest that we cut police budgets and then crime went up, but the first half of that never actually happened.

This is one of many articles which are trying to suggest that we cut police budgets and then crime went up, but the first half of that never actually happened. Oakland's police budget is the highest it's ever been and was not cut in 2020. The article it links to as a source for police budgets being cut has the headline "Cities Say They Want to Defund the Police. Their Budgets Say Otherwise.", and shows that police budgets as a percentage of major city budgets slightly _increased_.