> I mean, we can measure other things like long-term impacts on people's health, prevalence of crime, etc... but one of the questions I was hearing when this id

> I mean, we can measure other things like long-term impacts on people's health, prevalence of crime, etc... but one of the questions I was hearing when this idea was first floated was actually, "can these situations be resolved without arrests, or are the police just going to need to be eventually called anyway?" And it does seem like this outcome goes some way towards answering that quest Yes, but this is exactly the question. Were these situations 'resolved'? We don't know. The article doesn't say. All it says is that nobody was arrested. You can just as easily achieve zero arrests by doing absolutely nothing at all.