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tuberosum t1_ivfs4wr wrote

Reply to comment by sokpuppet1 in Left Unmonitored In His Cell, He Etched His Suicide Note Into a Wall On Rikers Island by hau5keeping

Oh, I see you're not familiar with how policing budgets work:

  1. When crime is low, you increase the budget to keep the crime low.

  2. When crime is rising, you increase the budget to slow and reverse the rise.

  3. When crime is high, you increase the budget to attempt to lower the crime.

  4. And finally, when crime is going down, you increase the budget to make sure it keeps going down.

And you just repeat the cycle as appropriate, year by year.

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