Quote Originally Posted by Novine View Post
How are these peer comparisons? Only Indianapolis is comparable in population and it's a consolidated City/County government. All of these other cities are in the 300,000 - 400,000 population range. You might as well be comparing police costs in Ann Arbor to Novi and wondering why they aren't the same.
Cost is one factor. The other factor that needs to be considered is outcomes and efficiency. I'd happily pay double for police if every murder and rape was solved, a significant number of property crimes were addresssed, followed up and solved.

My issue, beyond the cost, is that I suspect in addition to costs being disproportionately high I suspect our closure rates and actual arrests/service/follow up lag our peer cities.