If we were dealing with open honest people rather than a cabal of criminal justice special interests, we would see comprehensive crime statistics before and after passage of the last levy breaking down offenses into all the relevant categories with analysis provided based on reported numbers.  Things being as they are with the special interests running the program, we have no data and are expected to allocate money based on the general principle of fear.  There is nothing surprising about a special interest that wants to feather its nest and dump the cost onto others.  In an idealistic world, however, public safety as an organ of our government would be honest and forthright.  But this topic is just one of those many windmills that  I have focused on over the years.  Nothing changes.  Thinking and considered analysis is just not part of the American program.