I like the fewer criminals more cops scenario . Just me. People that despise the police, are rather suspect...
Violent crime in the USA has been declining for 20 years, and yet police forces have been increasing in both manpower and firepower. Policing in the USA has become increasingly violents even as the streets have become less so.
American police have now killed 1000 citizens every year that Trump has been in office. The next closest first world country, France, saw French police kill 26 citizens last year. Even if you triple that number to correspond to American populations, that would 78 versus 1004 in the USA last year. In Germnay, the number is 16, Canada 8, Great Britain 3, and Norway 0.
Being a police officer in the USA is currently a license to kill.