Oh, San Francisco?

Let's see what liberal policies have wroth:

nypost.com - San francisco drops case against transient who bashed ex fire commissioner with crowbar

The district attorney's office dropped the case against Don Carmignani's alleged assailant, Garrett Doty, after deciding the homeless man was acting in 'self-defense,' sources close to Carmignani told The Post Tuesday night.

Prosecutors heeded Doty's arguments and ruled that the attack was not senseless ' they said Carmignani instead instigated the vicious assault after deploying pepper spray on the homeless man, who lived outside his mother's property in the city's affluent Marina District.

When they say the homeless guy lived outside his mother's property, they mean he was blocking her driveway and threatening passers-by. The fire commissioner went out, talked to them, and when they threatened him he used pepper spray. That's when one of the drug bums bashed a hole in his skull.

This is liberalism, good and hard. This is what it looks like.

As to your links. liberals mayors announced drastic budget cuts and sent a signal, loud and clear, that the police were The Enemy. So officers in blue cities left in droves. That these blue places are shuffling money around in a scramble to find officers now just tells you the level of damage done.

ibo.nyc.ny.us: Independent Budget Office

New York City's police budget.

2021 - $5.27B
2020 - $5.78B

The number in 2021 is about $500 million smaller than the one in 2020. That's called a budget cut. Their capital expenditures? Was $251M in 2020, went down to $143M in 2021. That's called a CUT.

Again, blue cities told the police "Police bad!" and then watched them retire or just leave. Now we're reaping the whirlwind.