Many cities in the formerly industrial parts of the US that have had these police long since defunded by economic circumstance. You don't have rampant crime in

Many cities in the formerly industrial parts of the US that have had these police long since defunded by economic circumstance. You don't have rampant crime in those places. The west coast's crime problem has nothing to do with money and everything to do with executive policy (to not do much prosecuting, to the point where crimes that were formerly opportunistic are now low risk enough to become reliable sources of income for those so inclined) that's slowly being copied in more and more cities hence the overall trend.