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Originally Posted by WarChild
Yes absolutely because historically when large population centers don't have the rule of law, things generally turn out well.  |
Well, haha, I didn't mean cutting the force drastically. But there is a lot of unnecessary spending (Example: busting some Joe Schmo for smoking pot in his apartment that doesn't do the general public any good).
In order for police departments to get the same budget they got for the year before, they have to keep the spending up. Let's say a police department's budget was $1,000,000 last year, so they got $1,000,000 this year, but only spent $450,000 the entire period. They aren't going to get $1,000,000 again the next year, unless the reach around the same level of spending as the previous.