(07-18-2023, 07:32 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(07-18-2023, 02:19 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Why bother, dude? You believe what you want to believe. You're so invested in what you're told that you can't believe your eyes. Defund the police? ...Can't defund it if it's getting more money, right? Those are the FACTS.   

Meanwhile, in reality world, Chicago has been downsizing its actual sworn-in police department members in spite of high crime for the last 5 years. So, even though they are increasing their budget, putting you clearly on the right side of the FACTS, they aren't using it to actually, you know, get more police. They are reducing their police force. But, hey, technically downsizing isn't defunding, right? That downsizing is just a coincidence. Don't worry, though... while you repeat the FACTS about their budget increasing, I'm sure some nice corporate contractor is somehow finding new ways to funnel money from the taxpayers while crime continues to skyrocket. And I'm not even going to mention the problems the defund the police movement has created for cops who are now too afraid to police. Gotta love dem FACTS.

The y axis origin of a graph like this should be either 0 or 12,154
9000 was picked to make the data look worse than it is.
We also don't know if "sworn police officers" are getting more specialized.  Perhaps some tasks they used to do are now done by other types of police department employees

But mostly

None of us are in Chicago.
None of the politicians any of us might vote for have anything to do with Chicago.

They've only been collecting the data for 5 years, so what you see is what you get. If the y axis was 12,154, that would make it look worse than it is, but whatever. Keep fighting the good fight, man. 

Also, don't say stupid [BLEEP] like, We don't know if sworn police officers are getting more specialized. Say, YOU don't know if sworn police officers are getting more specialized. It's there to find if you go look for it. 

This is just bad policy, and it doesn't matter if we live in Chicago. We can point to it and say "I told you so," because we're hoping you ostriches can pull your heads out of the sands long enough to acknowledge the problem. Your ignorance is not my ignorance.

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