Incompetence is the word that descibes police departments claiming they are waiting up to a year for ammunition.
Government procurement agencies, expecially in cities have long been corrupt.
If the police are short, a trip to Wal-Mart will fix it, unless the government-cops are to dull to find their way there.
If they know the way there, some corrupt city councilman would rather have dead cops than for said councilman’s idiot brother in law to lose business.
The only thing there is a shortage of in US city government is honesty and integrity. Of that there is a shortage.