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How effective are police at stopping crime? Do we have any evidence that giving the extraordinary rights to regular run of the mill law enforcement makes a dif
by cptskippy 5y ago
How effective are police at stopping crime? Do we have any evidence that giving the extraordinary rights to regular run of the mill law enforcement makes a difference?
I'm not talking about federal agents working on large cases, but the city and county police who often can't be bothered to show up in person to take reports of robberies or assault.
How effective are those officers at using GPS trackers, drones, MRAPs, and other extraordinary equipment to stop crime? If I had to hazard a Gus's it would be not at all.
- raarts 5y agoMaybe look at places where the police is defunded? Reports that crime skyrockets in such places are plenty to be found.
- helloworld11 5y agoplenty of subtleties covered here, and no, the cause effect relationship of police budgets reduced = crime rising isn't quite so cut and dry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police#Effect_on_crime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police#Effect_on_cr...
- 8note 5y agoThat's likely confirmation bias. You'd also want to look at places where crime skyrocketed, as well as other factors likely to have an influence, like alternative support systems
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