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Attributable to rapidly increasing police expenditures. The "baseline" level of crime in the counterfactual scenario where police expenditure had stayed constan
by wyager 4y ago
Attributable 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.