Up-Voted.
You are correct. First, the defund the police hot-spots were in the very regions in which Dem Party mayors and governors deliberately stood down police departments so that hate-filled and violent leftist radicals could methodically riot, loot, burn, mug, and muder for an entire year.
So naturally crime in general sky-rocketed in those areas and then only got worse when the very same leftist morons did indeed . . . defund police departments.
Conservatives and almost every Republican KNEW that this would happen because -- unlike leftists -- we not only read and understand the lessons of history, but we also possess common sense.