Can someone make a map or table showing the per-capita murder rate changes per county, and overlap that with counties that had per-capita effective-law-enforcement-bodies-available changes?<p>In other words, if Baltimore lost hundreds of law enforcement officers due to early retirements/police union strikes/"Defund the Police", and also saw a murder spike, I'd want to see that highlighted....and the same for any other city with similar results (which, I <i>suspect</i>, all have similar root causes).<p><a href="https://patriotdailypress.org/2021/04/25/police-shortage-cops-retiring-in-droves-recruiting-crisis-applications-historically-low/" rel="nofollow">https://patriotdailypress.org/2021/04/25/police-shortage-cop...</a>
Meh, comparing to the 90s peak in absolute numbers makes no sense, and seems disingenuous. 21000 murders now vs 25000 in the 90s is still half, per capita, there are about a hundred million more people here now.