Defund the Police meets the crime wave
I read most of the article, in which the author implies that defunding the police increases crime, and blames the people in charge of Oakland with this crime.<p>Yet I recalled hearing that police budgets in Oakland were steady to up this year, despite the protests.<p>A quick search seems to confirm this: <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-didnt-cut-any-money-from-the-police-budget-at-all" rel="nofollow">https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-didnt-cut-any-money-from-t...</a><p>>Despite claims to the contrary, the Oakland City Council did not make any cuts to the police budget at all this year. In fact, Oakland police were allotted about $39 million more than in the previous two years, according to a KTVU analysis of city records.<p>What did I miss?