[mlyle]

If you spend a huge amount of money on police, and get bad outcomes for both crime rate and negative impacts of policing, there's really two options:

- The money is poorly spent, and better (perhaps less) spending would obtain better outcomes

- Because of other factors, we're doing approximately as well as we can: if we deployed resources away from the authoritarian, heavy-handed mechanisms, we'd have even more crimes and bad outcomes.

I think the former is more likely, but I can't entirely exclude the latter.