Yet Chicago already tried what you are proposing. They already have almost twice the amount of police officers per capita than the national average. Obviously that hasn't worked.
Based on data reported to the FBI in 2020 by 15,875 law enforcement agencies across the country, the national ratio of police officers to population is 2.4 officers per 1,000 people. By comparison, and according to this same data set, the Chicago Police Department had 4.7 police officers per 1,000 people in 2020.
https://www.civicfed.org/civic-federation/blog/chicago-police-department-staffing-analysisI think you're missing the point of "obviously that hasn't worked"... and comparing Chicago's crime to the "national average" city is a
weak. Parts of Chicago are war-zones, obviously more man-power is needed.
But now it's far worse. The per-capita murder rate in the Chicago Police Department's 15th District in Austin has climbed 274% between 2010 and 2020, to 115.2 per 100,000 residents. In the 11th District, serving Garfield Park, the increase was 114%, and the per-capita murder rate reached 146.8, according to data from the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
Those homicide rates are up there with the most violent cities on Earth, according to data analytics company Statista. The world's most violent city, Tijuana, Mexico, has a murder rate of 138 per 100,000 residents.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cra...iolence-problem-debate-safety-inequalityWho looks at that kind of data and says... "I got it --peacekeepers!!"?
Current mayor, Brandon Johnson would not commit to filling 1600 vacancies in the force and proposed 150M in cuts. That's probably not going to get it done. Pandering to the sector with the megaphones -- insisting police themselves are the cause of all these problems -- is not going to get it done either.
