PBA = police officers’ union (for those like me who didn’t know)

But does it necessarily follow that law enforcement budgets will be cut if weed is legalised?

Ideally, how might the budget be reconfigured constructively with the same dollar amount to make a better community?

> Ideally, how might the budget be reconfigured constructively with the same dollar amount to make a better community?

Attrition of police officers with those remaining for only when force is required, while bolstering social worker and community outreach services and funding. Non violent emergency calls go to social response.

St Petersburg, Florida is making a go of this. Budgeting details in the link below.

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-pinellas/st-peters...

It's not so much a question of law enforcement budgets as it is municipality budgets. Many of these smaller pass-through towns make significant money harassing travelers (speed traps) and through seizures of property. If MJ is legal, they can no longer use things such as "I smell marijuana" as a pretext for exacerbating a traffic stop or stacking more charges.

How do you quantify the revenue derived from that?

You can literally look it up or file a FOIA request.

To this end, MuckRock[1] is a non-profit SaaS platform that can assist you in filing requests for public records.

[1] https://www.muckrock.com/

Why would we keep breeding the same number of horses after switching to cars?