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Are you seriously claiming that the presence of police increases the murder rate? Or are you actually asking to know by what mechanisms policing can prevent mur
by iguy 6y ago
Are you seriously claiming that the presence of police increases the murder rate? Or are you actually asking to know by what mechanisms policing can prevent murders?
Once you are talking about solving a murder, clearly that one was not prevented. It may draw detectives to the neighborhood looking for clues. It's pretty hard to argue that the causality runs from these detectives to the murder though.
- baddox 6y ago> Are you seriously claiming that the presence of police increases the murder rate? No, I'm not, and I didn't say anything remotely suggesting that.
- iguy 6y agoYea I couldn't figure it out. The context of the thread was which way the causality goes from density of policing to level of crime. What were you saying then?