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[quote name="saltlord"]the perceived problem is with cops living outside the jurisdictions they police and thus both failing to empathize with the populace under their authority and evading accountability for civilian review boards set up to prevent them from having their lives affected significantly in case they're fired; they're unafraid to lose their job because they can get rehired in the county or in another city borough, or the union will try to get them their job back, they're unafraid to lose their homes, etc. you might want to take a look around for the map of NYC with cop residences by borough for a telling example. camden merged its force and budget with the county, which is bigger than the city; covering a larger area is maybe gonna require more overall manpower. seeing numbers from both forces before the merger would help to determine whether the overall force for the jurisdiction areas in question got bigger. as for budgets, even if they paid nothing for gear (which you can go about proving if you want but I don't believe), increasing the percentage of the budget that is given to cops, whether for training for special tactics, expendable ammo and upkeep costs, or any other reason, takes from the percentage that goes into crime intervention, mental health services, job placement and training, etc all in service of having heavily patrolled stretches of real estate and heavily patrolled ghettos.[/quote]