I have something bigger on this soon, but the fact that police militarization accelerated long after the crime wave ended is really important--> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/12/upshot/cities-grew-safer-police-budgets-kept-growing.html … So many American institutions are lost in the labyrinth of late-20th century path dependency.
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i would! (which is why it's kind of surprising that, by some counts, total local/state police spending hasn't much changed as a share of budgets—even tho, as shown here, it's increased in some cities) thesis was more geared toward militarization than total police spending
