I don’t believe there’s any proof of any police departments in the US being defunded. It’s likely that one or two had their budgets drop by a marginal percent

I don’t believe there’s any proof of any police departments in the US being defunded. It’s likely that one or two had their budgets drop by a marginal percent for a single year only and then got a substantial increase in budget the next year. The murder clearance rate has been in the toilet for decades, maybe forever, everywhere in the US. It’s also likely that you knew this already!