What the article does not consider is US police expenditure. In many major cities policing is ~30% of general fund expenditure. If US police expenditure was a country’s military budget, it would astonishingly rank 3rd worldwide.
Hiring more police is not the simple solution, there needs to be a fundamental cultural shift among American police away from militarization.
Hiring more police is not the simple solution, there needs to be a fundamental cultural shift among American police away from militarization.