Leftists say policing has not changed enough. Conservatives argue that public suspicion of police, and progressive policy changes, have hamstrung law enforcement
But talk with Dave Bicking and Emma Pedersen—members of Communities United Against Police Brutality, an activist group—and they will tell you the opposite. The city council vowed to “defund the police”; instead the’s budget has grown. Police killings, Mr Bicking asserts, “go on at the same rate as always”. TheThese two poles define a roiling debate. Leftists argue that policing has changed far too little since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd three years ago.
A related phenomenon has seen officers transfer from departments in big cities with high crime rates to agencies in wealthier, smaller cities with less crime, a lower cost of living and higher salaries. According to the, the New York Police Department saw more resignations last year than at any time in the past two decades. At least 14 of the department’s officers moved to Aurora, Colorado; others have accepted $5,000 signing bonuses to move to Florida.
Art Acevedo, who headed the Austin, Houston and Miami police departments and is now interim chief in Aurora, Colorado, said that “the push by some elected officials to defund the police…had an impact on recruitment and retention.
Yet the ground on which police operate has changed. Ten years ago, police facing a crime spike might have embarked on a “flood-the-zone” strategy: pour officers into a neighbourhood with a lot of violent crime, and start arresting people and writing tickets to show “zero tolerance”. That strategy will no longer work. Some of those arrests will involve displays of force that, thanks to mobile-phone cameras, will end up on social media.
But the most important thing police could do to bring down the violent-crime rate is to catch more violent criminals. Nationally, just over half of all murders, and less than half of other violent crimes, go unsolved . By contrast, more than 95% of murders are solved in South Korea and Japan, as well as 80% in Sweden, 87% in Switzerland and 98% in Finland.
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