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Also, most crimes are committed against your peers. If the victim is another undocumented immigrant, they are probably less likely to call the police on you in
by est31 6y ago
Also, most crimes are committed against your peers. If the victim is another undocumented immigrant, they are probably less likely to call the police on you in the first place.
- _iyig 6y agoIndeed, this effect has been studied and documented: https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/10306/silence-of-the-innocents-illegal-immigrants-underreporting-of-crime-and-their-victimization https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/10306/silence-of-the-inn... Per the study, crime among an illegal immigrant population fell post-amnesty in repose to increased crime reporting. Conversely, this implies that when members of a community report crime less often as a result of their immigration status - which the study finds to be the case - crime in those communities is higher than it would be otherwise.