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Violent crime until recently has been generally steadily dropping since the 70s.
by vorpalhex 4y ago
Violent crime until recently has been generally steadily dropping since the 70s.
- wyager 4y agoAttributable to rapidly increasing police expenditures. The "baseline" level of crime in the counterfactual scenario where police expenditure had stayed constant is almost certainly increasing.
- tomtheelder 4y agoI don't think anything about what you just said can be assumed to be true. I am not convinced that increased police expenditure has a significant impact on violent crime, and even if it does I don't think it's reasonable at all to assume that violent crime rates would have increased without them. I suspect that decreasing violent crime rates are caused by a constellation of forces (increased education, aging population, decreased alcohol consumption, more out there stuff like decreased childhood lead exposure, etc.).
- coding123 4y agoBy far more than any other metric crime is driven by things not being affordable (including and especially housing)
- vorpalhex 4y agoWell that's just not true. Crime has more correlation with density than pricing but that is correlation, not causation. Many cheap broke areas are also high crime areas.