Increases in crime should not have stalled efforts to reofrm the police force itself. You have lunatics, anger managment drop outs and ignorant of the law people being sent out into the streets with guns with no understanding of the constitution and not one city has made any significant effort to change that so we no longer have misdeamoners punishable by death or rogue cops stop costing cities millions in lawsuits.
Like eveyrthing else, politicians talked a good game and just waited for people to lose interest and moved on. Increase in crime would put more of an emphasis of fixing what is wrong with policing so that they can be effective. But instead they keep on sending out Seargent Harris with multiple complaints and anger issues and a loose trigger and cry when they pay out $5 million to the family of a kid beaten or killed.
