[Borodog]

The purpose of the police is purportedly to provide security. If the people believe this, they are tricked into personally spending less on their own security. This incentivises criminal activity, and crime will go up. The police can never have enough resources to take responsibility for all the people that have been tricked into behaving irresponsibly. Hence crime will inevitably rise, the police do not have enough resources, and claim that they are "chronically underfunded." Taxes are raised, the people feel even more like it's the government's job to protect them, since they are paying so much for the "service," and they spend even less on their own security. Crime is incentivised even more, and the cycle continues. It is not a coincidence that crime is highest where government spends the most on the police, but the direction of causation is not the way most people think it is. Politicians exacerbate the problems by passing laws to make it illegal for individuals to spend on and act in their own defense at all, for example gun bans.

The same effect is seen in other areas where people are tricked into believing that they are not responsible for some individual personal responsibility and the government is. Education is probably the best example.