Comment by HillaryBriss

a retired police officer once told me that the quantity of officers citywide goes through a repeated cycle from low to high to low again.

when the number of officers is too low and there's too much crime, the people demand that the government hire more.

so government does that. and crime goes down.

then the public notices all these police officers "doing nothing" and complains about wasted government resources.

so, naturally, they demand a reduction in the number of officers.

and so it goes...