Politicians, pundits and police leaders across the country have blamed the rise in crime on the 'defund the police' movement. But in most places, it never happened.
show violent crime numbers don't move up or down with any relationship to money spent on law enforcement or the number of officers on patrol.
She said one reason police agencies feel stretched is because communities have been asking them to "be all things to everybody. And that doesn't seem fair." To change that, the way emergency calls get handled would need to change too, something Ray, the Brookings Institution's senior fellow, works on.
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