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Re:The Crime Rings Stealing Everything from Purses to Power ... by sabarn01 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @06:13PM (#39772620)
They increased funding by 433 million

£15,877 million in police funding for England and Wales has been agreed for the financial year ending March 2022 overall funding has increased nominally by £433m (2.8%) compared with the previous financial year

Re:The Crime Rings Stealing Everything from Purses to Power ... by BadHumans on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @06:47PM (#39772953)
My mistake I read that number wrong. The most recent number I can find is that during the 2022-2023 budget year, the UK spent around 25 billion pounds which puts them closer to the US when compared in USD but still under. Which begs the question, what do you consider well-funded?
Re:The Crime Rings Stealing Everything from Purses to Power ... by jemmyw on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:39PM (#39773741)
So per capita the UK spends more than 4x as much?
Re:The Crime Rings Stealing Everything from Purses to Power ... by BadHumans on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @10:33PM (#39774373)
No. The number I quoted is how much the US spends federally on funding the DOJ. It does not include state and local budgets.
Re:The Crime Rings Stealing Everything from Purses to Power ... by sabarn01 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:58AM (#39775251)
Its about 190B which is about on par so I was wrong. From my experience with friends who are LEO they get about 1 week of training a year which isn't enough.