(07-17-2023, 12:00 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: This article will probably look really silly as the actual numbers of Chicago's police funding since 2019 continue to come to light.

There is so much disinformation out there that it's hard to decipher, but from what I've read at a half dozen less biased sites than fox news, the police budget in Chicago was never defunded. They examined the budget - moved ahead with funding - but just made strategic cuts to trim fat in areas that called for it.

Their annual budget actually INCREASED from everything I'm seeing, it just didn't increase at the same rate it had been increasing annually prior to the cuts.

The actual numbers are apparently hard to get because of ongoing lawsuits.
If anyone is able to dig up actual numbers released from the city records - I'd be interested to see them.

You don't understand how a budget cut works for the government. Cutting funding doesn't mean that you actually lost funding from the previous year, it means what you wrote. Anytime you don't get the same % increase the following year, it is a budget cut. The budget increase each year is a given and they expect it. So cutting the standard increase $1 is a cut to the government.


Also just because the total $ amount didn't change or increased doesn't mean the police actually get the money. It could be going to hire peace keepers or whatever else stupid program. There could be less cops even with the larger budget.

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