VP Joe Biden continues to say that not passing the latest Obama jobs bill will cause murder and rape to increase. This is a lie.
The correlation between money spent on cops, or the size of a police force, and crime rates has never been proven.
Characteristically outspoken, ex-Minneapolis Chief Tony Bouza doesn't buy it. "Cops have nothing to do with the crime rate, and anyone who says so is an idiot," he said. "They're irrelevant to preventing crime -- they just displace it to another area. And society can produce criminals at a much faster rate than the police can arrest everyone they can find."
Are any of our mayoral candidates running on a "Save money, get rid of the police force platform"? Looks like they could pick up some support here.
How about any Republican presidential candidates? Same comment.
