Someone mentioned this later but "This included fewer tickets and a huge drop in arrests...During the slowdown, police continued to respond to calls, and the ar

Someone mentioned this later but "This included fewer tickets and a huge drop in arrests...During the slowdown, police continued to respond to calls, and the arrest rate for major crimes (murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, and grand theft auto) remained constant. But the arrest rate for non-major crime and narcotic offenses dropped, as did the number of stop-and-frisk events." When people start to worry in mass about crime rates it's not because of an increase in moving violations. However the article you posted does show a counterintuitive view of what would happen if police have a slow down. I found this https://www.jstor.org/stable/26379438 https://www.jstor.org/stable/26379438 and it seems to help your point by at least showing constant or minimal increases in crime. I'll admit I made those points because it seems intuitive, that if someone is a criminal they would be less hesitant to commit crimes if they thought they wouldn't get caught. But that doesn't seem to be the case.