If you read the meeting minutes for the local government meeting you will find their thoughts. If the meeting minutes seem duplicitous, you can always make a FOIA request. You can also look at which candidates receive funding from various local government unions and fraternal orders.

I don’t read meeting minutes for most cities, but I do follow my own. Essentially with crime increasing the city council members in my extremely blue city were scared to cut police funding (fearing being blamed for a crime increase). It’s nothing nefarious. It just means activists need to do better challenging status quo opinions.