> Turns out when you defund the police and disband special units murders go up. Turns out - correlation doesn't equal causation. From my criminology 101 class

> Turns out when you defund the police and disband special units murders go up. Turns out - correlation doesn't equal causation. From my criminology 101 class - crime goes down when the likelihood of being arrested/convicted of a crime goes up. The problem is that the likelihood of being arrested/convicted is a complex system whereby no one single factor can affect it. Especially last year you had several huge sociological factors that likely played into this: social reactions to BLM, riots, domestic terrorism, record high unemployment, mental health contributions due to stay-home regulations, AND defunding of the police. To pretend that one factor is the only contributing factor to a complex system is a fool's errand.