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Originally Posted by sleepingmoose
I think the CFD request is probably legit - but CPS almost always get more money after playing to peoples fears. While all other City departments are faced with cuts in the last few years, CPS makes people think you’ll get mugged putting out your garbage if you try to reduce $6 million from a $400 million budget. Gotta make sure TAC has a new armoured tank, and another bomb robot.
I get that some of these things are required, but they never have to actually justify replacing old equipment or hiring more people, they just want you to be so scared you don’t ask questions or dare argue.
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That's a bit extreme, and there's no evidence of that at all.
They want the extra money to hire more bodies, not buy armoured tanks, whatever those are in police terms
Crime is on the rise, people are concerned, those are pure stats.
More boots on the ground may make some people feel safer, and may reduce crime or catch the criminals after the fact.
Decreasing the budget, re-allocating, or defunding the police is guaranteed to have the opposite effect.