Look up “Ferguson effect”. Regardless of police budgets, policing in the USA has taken a step back in the last decade and reduced enforcement.
The result can be seen everywhere - more car crashes and deaths, speeding, homicides, car theft, and also in smaller ways like subway turnstile jumping and loitering.
The result can be seen everywhere - more car crashes and deaths, speeding, homicides, car theft, and also in smaller ways like subway turnstile jumping and loitering.