Except police budgets have been increasing for decades, and the amount of crime has as well. The biggest problem is every time there’s any suggestion that mayb

Except police budgets have been increasing for decades, and the amount of crime has as well. The biggest problem is every time there’s any suggestion that maybe the police aren’t actually doing a good job, police stop working and then blame any change in crime of lack of money. This is ignoring the non-theft crime caused by police (pedofile ring in Oakland PD, fraud, murders, etc). they also change their reporting of crimes to inflate or deflate the rate of crime as necessary. Hell they’ll even create their own crime wave if necessary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Boston_arson_spree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Boston_arson_spree Despite being the most significant cause of theft in the US.