It only logically equates if the police budgets are equally distributed. So you're right if Chicago also has the largest police force, and there are no other co

It only logically equates if the police budgets are equally distributed. So you're right if Chicago also has the largest police force, and there are no other confounding factors such as a higher base rate of crime due to social/economic context of the city. I am definitely suggesting spending more money on police though. Both in police employment and in police education. If I were king, I'd introduce a new rank of police officer, that gets paid 30% more and 10% more time off, that requires a year or two extra education, continuous education upkeep and extra scrutiny on their record of interactions (i.e. complaints). Too many complaints, or screw up in some bad way and you lose your rank for 1 to 5 years. Police departments would be required to gradually increase their ratio of the higher ranked officers to 30 to 50%. Just daydreaming though.