Maybe that's their point, but it's not convincing if it's using made-up information, which is my point. The inflation argument is not very convincing to me eit

Maybe that's their point, but it's not convincing if it's using made-up information, which is my point. The inflation argument is not very convincing to me either. Both of those measures (inflation, budget) are objective facts that are absent from the article. Also "police budgets not quite keeping up with inflation is causing chaos in my neighborhood" is not very convincing.