The problem is the welfare society created the feral, fatherless gimmedats. That isn’t a problem that can be solved by city government. So, city government is like a hammer that sees the entire world as a nail. They can hire more cops and say, there, we did something. No effort will be made to compare the before-the-extra-cops to after-the- extra-cops. Governments are not results driven. They simply react. And, because their power is so limited by other, bigger governments, courts and having to run for office every four years, their reactions can only be a tiny handful of ineffectual (but expensive and vote-getting) gestures.