Cause & Effect?

[abbey1227]

Lawmakers vote to cut $15 million from DC police department's budget
By Paul Wagner  Published June 25, 2020
Washington, D.C.  FOX 5 DC

DC marks 100th homicide in 2021
Valerie Bonk | [e-mail]
July 11, 2021, 8:14 PM

ABC News
Police offering $60K reward after 6-year-old girl killed in Washington, DC, shooting

July 18, 2021

NBC Washington D.C.
DC Mayor Directs Police to Use ‘Any Overtime Necessary' to Curb Gun Violence
Briana Trujillo and Derrick Ward - Yesterday 11:46 PM

[Prometheus]

Not necessarily.

The MPD has one of the highest officer to citizen ratios in the US at 1:184

The $15 million cut represents about 2.6% of the annual operating budget of the MPD and resulted in no reduction in uniformed manpower.

I suspect that increased violence in DC has the same point of origin as in the rest of the country:

Poverty - now increased due to Trump's idiotic handling of Covid

Distrust of the police due to institutionalized racism and the unwillingness of police forces to address the issue

Lack of physical and mental health care


I'd go on but I know you're not listening.