“The drop-off in police staffing is due to the cops themselves.”
Gladwell blames “defund the police” for Philadelphia losing 23.1 percent of its officers since 2019. Nobody defunded anything. The cops quit rather than face a whiff of accountability. Berlin has twice the officers of Los Angeles, German brutality cases end in complaints only 9% of the time, and most German states don’t make cops wear ID, so more cops just means more cops nobody can name.