Decades of Local Hiring

The President suggested last week that parents were going to have to explain to their children why their favorite teachers have been fired thanks to Republican opposition to additional stimulus to save local jobs. The Vice President went even further, suggesting we could see a rise in violent crime including rape and murder thanks to layoffs of police.
But what this hyperbolic rhetoric ignores is that local government has been on a decades long hiring boom and that we currently have historically high ratios of public safety workers like cops and firefighters to the population at large.