1. Cities increase police funding in response to increased crime
2. Therefore, decreasing police funding increases crime.
However, 2. does not follow from 1, since many other factors affect crime rates, from legislation to enforcement and from social issues to societal issues.
In fact, even the inverse of 2. does not follow from 1: increasing police funding does not decrease crime rates.
If you disagree, please provide an academic source for the direct causal relationship between police funding and crime rate.
Can you explain why these leaders with highly paid staff of analysts who have way more knowledge and data, are doing this?
EDIT: while you're downvoting me, be sure to downvote the leaders and news media who lied to you as well.
"""In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he would reinstate $92 million for a new precinct after scrapping the project last summer. The mayor of Baltimore, who led efforts as a city councilman to cut the police budget by $22 million last year, recently proposed a $27 million increase.
After attacks on Asian-Americans and a rise in homicides in Oakland, Calif., city lawmakers in April restored $3.3 million of the $29 million in police cuts, and the mayor is now proposing to increase the department’s budget by $24 million. Los Angeles’s mayor has proposed an increase of about $50 million after the city cut $150 million from its police department last year."""
"Cities Reverse Defunding the Police Amid Rising Crime"