What cash-starved inner city PD’s need is a state-funded witness protection program. The ability to relocate witnesses to other locales would likely increase the degree of cooperation from eyewitnesses in high-crime areas and greatly improve the homicide investigation closure rate.
Philly PD is not cash starved; they’re a small military force.
“What cash-starved inner city PD’s need is a state-funded witness protection program.”
Not no...but HELL NO!