We give far more money to police departments than we did in the early 90's and they did better with clearance rates despite the fact there were higher crime rates back then.
30 years of coddling Cops and the hero worship after 9-11 has resulted in cops that don't do as good a job as they did 30 years ago despite all the high tech shit they have now. They have have become entitled to having everything their own way all the time, and fight accountability at every turn. I remember 30 years ago when cops hated a department's internal affairs division. Now, it seems those divisions exist to protect or justify cops bad behaviors than to hold them accountable.
If we treated cops like the Republicans propose we treat public school teachers (on performance), we would be defunding them. Not saying we should, but I am pointing out how increases in crime are never blamed on shitty police work.
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