A few years. You should know, they are actually still going to have police, and probably close to the same amount for a little while. The county Sheriff's Office is going to be taking over for the city. While it's fun to make fun of them like it's literally going to be Mogadishu with roaming bands of savages wearing 92 Bulls jerseys in pickup trucks with AKs and boomboxes, in reality the Sheriff's Office is just going to hire more people and cover the slack. A fair number of the former MPD cops will likely be immediate hires to the Sheriff's Office since they do still need to actually have jobs right now. But over time, there will still be attrition as even those former MPD officers/now deputies find more stable jobs elsewhere and move out. Fewer people will be willing to apply to be a deputy in that county, the budget will get stratched even more, crime will rise causing more people to leave, which will hit the taxes on both ends, fewer people paying more taxes individually but overall still less money that goes to the Sheriff's Office, which causes more crime and more people leaving, and so on. This will take several years for it to finally play out to the point where there is a collective "oh shit" moment. NYC went through a similar period of high crime and low/poor policing that lasted like a decade+ before people even started getting pissed enough to do something about it. I would wager that you can expect it will be 2 or 3 years for the decay to really set in in a noticeable and lasting way, but probably at 20 years before any sort of positive turnaround begins to appear. Look at Detroit, they stlll can't get their shit together and it's been over 50 years.

A few years. You should know, they are actually still going to have police, and probably close to the same amount for a little while. The county Sheriff's Office is going to be taking over for the city. While it's fun to make fun of them like it's literally going to be Mogadishu with roaming bands of savages wearing 92 Bulls jerseys in pickup trucks with AKs and boomboxes, in reality the Sheriff's Office is just going to hire more people and cover the slack. A fair number of the former MPD cops will likely be immediate hires to the Sheriff's Office since they do still need to actually have jobs right now. But over time, there will still be attrition as even those former MPD officers/now deputies find more stable jobs elsewhere and move out. Fewer people will be willing to apply to be a deputy in that county, the budget will get stratched even more, crime will rise causing more people to leave, which will hit the taxes on both ends, fewer people paying more taxes individually but overall still less money that goes to the Sheriff's Office, which causes more crime and more people leaving, and so on. This will take several years for it to finally play out to the point where there is a collective "oh shit" moment. NYC went through a similar period of high crime and low/poor policing that lasted like a decade+ before people even started getting pissed enough to do something about it.