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This article is taking a few tragic cases and acting like defunding the police caused these murders, when there's no reason to think the police could have stopp

• rytcio 5y ago
  Did crime actually fall, or was no one there to take the reports?
  • cbsks 5y ago
    Quoted from the article linked above: The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3% to 6% during the slowdown. “The cessation of proactive policing corresponds roughly to the relative decline in crime that earlier research attributed to the effects of mass incarceration,” the authors noted. The researchers ran the analysis under a couple other models, and the results still held. They examined whether crime underreporting could have biased the findings, and the results still held. “While we cannot entirely rule out the effects of under-reporting,” the authors wrote, “our results show that crime complaints decreased, rather than increased, during a slowdown in proactive policing, contrary to deterrence theory.”
• throwaway0a5e 5y ago
  IIRC something similiar happened in Baltimore as well.