Like most government programs that are "under funded" the solution is not actually more funding. The solution is doing a proper analysis of what they are doin

Like most government programs that are "under funded" the solution is not actually more funding. The solution is doing a proper analysis of what they are doing with the money, and readjusting. Specifically law enforcement, the root cause of almost everything is over criminalization of society, combined with "policing for profit" where cities pass all kinds of laws and then place priority of enforcement on laws that generate them the most revenue instead of public safety This create a perverse feedback loop of violent or unpopular police interactions with the public. Another factor in this is the way local and state government do budgeting. Police, Fire, Schools and Road (core services) are actually often the FIRST to have their budgets cut over social or other non-core services. This makes tax increases more palatable to the tax payers, as they are often willing to absorb tax increases for core services but not for non-core services. All tax money currently in most cities in fungible, so those that control the budgets can shift fund away from core services, create a crisis, then push for the public to access a tax increase to "solve" the crisis they created.