More than a year ago, the city announced that police would crack down on illegally parked cars and that resources would be diverted from writing speeding tickets to ticketing illegally parked cars. But no crackdown has taken place. The police chief claims that resources have had to be diverted from writing speeding tickets to combating the city' s staggering drug problem. Yet the police are still writing as many speeding tickets as ever. Ttherefore, the excuse about resources being tied up in fighting drug-related crime simply is not true. The conclusion in the passage depends on the assumption that ['writing speeding tickets should be as important a priority for the city as combating drug-related crime', 'drug-related crime is not as serious a problem for the city as the police chief claims it is', 'the police cannot continue writing as many speeding tickets as ever while diverting resources to combating drug-related crime', "every member of the police force is qualified to work on combating the city's drug problem"]