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Given that the USA has the highest incarceration rate in the world, I'm going to go with the latter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarce

• throwaway894345 6y ago
  This might be true for certain kinds of crime (possession or sale of drugs). We know it's not true for many other kinds of crime (especially violent crime) because these communities report crimes at a higher rate and because the murder rate in these communities is much higher. Crime reports and murder rates aren't functions of police presence (they don't depend on police stumbling upon a crime in progress). There are also more shootings, stabbings, assaults, etc as reported by healthcare officials. (I shouldn't have to say this, but none of my argument above suggests that the US incarceration rate is ideal or otherwise not a problem).