I concur wholeheartedly with that.
Several months ago I was talking with a guy who is a new city councilman of a small town in a generally low-crime area. They have considerably more police than my city does on a per capita basis, probably double, and a ridiculous percentage of the city budget goes to police. It would be easy to argue for a police force downsizing there. It sounds like you may be in a similar situation. I just looked, and their police budget is around 50% of the city’s total budget, similar to your situation.
Where do they get all this money for these SWAT teams...the Feds?