[jedrek]

I would love to see any rigorously documented causation or even correlation between police budgets and crime rates.

[toyg]

A cursory watch of the "Hamsterdam" season of The Wire, or the "serial killer" one, will be enough to remove any faith in the accuracy of police stats. (Yes, it's fiction, but it's based on years of hardcore journalistic experience "on the crime beat" by show writers).

[WarOnPrivacy]

> I would love to see any rigorously documented causation or even correlation between police budgets and crime rates.

Here's a bit of what we do have.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/us/police-crime.html

https://abcnews.go.com/US/crimes-rise-battles-rage-police-fu...