Crypto News: Why police funding makes up 40% of Uvalde’s budget

Uvalde's police spending, which makes up 40% of the city's budget, has come under scrutiny as details emerged that officers waited more than an hour to enter the classroom where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in last Tuesday's massacre at Robb Elementary School.

But determining what went wrong in the police response will take more than scrutinizing city budgets. In fact, Uvalde's police spending is not such an aberration for a city of just 16,000 residents.

A Bloomberg analysis of 15 cities with population sizes similar to Uvalde's shows that, on average, policing accounted for nearly a third of their general-fund budgets. And it's not uncommon for police to be one of, if not the only major service that smaller cities are set up to provide. Part of the investigation's next phase will be scrutinizing the performance of Uvalde's police force and whether the city was able to properly provide one of the few services it promised to residents, write Sarah Holder and Fola Akinnibi. Today on CityLab: Why Police Funding Makes Up 40% of Uvalde's Budget

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