Proponents of “defunding” the police are right to call for more money for social projects. But taking money away from America’s modest police budgets will not provide enough policing in a country that has nearly 400m guns in circulation
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskToday such a figure seems hard to imagine. The biggest risk most visitors face to their wallets comes from eating in restaurants, not from hooded figures carrying guns in the street. Last year, the city saw 488 murders, in a population of 8.5m. That is a substantially higher rate than in cities like Paris or London.
It was often black leaders who pushed for more police and more punitive sentences to tackle drugs and violent crime. According to Mr Sharkey, the long decline in such crime that began after 1991 was brought about in part by more aggressive policing. The number of police officers soared. More cops on more street corners helped to contain violence by sheer force.
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