The more homelessness, lawlessness, crime, rock-bottom test scores in the schools, potholes in the streets, etc. etc., the more the populace clamors for them to fix it.
Which leads to zillion-dollar "acts" and "initiatives" and "omnibus bills" that the voters approve of, which leads to more taxation and more revenue flowing to the idiots who allowed this to happen and who will contniue to allow this to happen, which will lead to more clamoring for more fixes which will cost zillions more, and the cycle continues.
And the average voter simply doesn't see the pattern.
2 hours and a dozen police officers. Waste of taxpayer money.