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Arrests didn't go up because cops stopped doing their jobs in 2020:
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-mayor-police-chief-news-conference-policing-changes/283-7c4e2427-d844-440e-acad-ed0e46e68a8d
https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2022/08/31/mayor-calls-rebukes-portland-police-bureaus-claims-of-understaffing-bullshit/
https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-changes-city-police-bureau/
We should just fire them all, ban their b/s union. And start fresh
Camden, NJ cleaned house and dissolved its municipal police department when corruption and the lack of accountability became too much of an issue to deal with. Policing services are now performed by the county.