We find no evidence that mayoral partisanship affects police employment or expenditures, police force or leadership demographics, overall crime rates, or numbers of arrests. At the same time, we find some suggestive evidence that mayoral partisanship may modestly affect the racial composition of arrests. Overall, the results from our multimethod analyses indicate that local partisan politics has little causal impact on crime and policing.
Having an effect on the racial composition of arrests is a pretty significant thing. Im not sure why they think the other things would change. I don’t think they effect streets and sans spending, employment, cleanliness of the city, or garbage pickup either.
It’s almost like the state completely supports its own violent attacks on humanity while people are fed “democracy” as a pointless distraction.
So, “defund the police” was a lie.
