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More crime incidents doesn’t mean more dangerous. For example a shooting is substantially worse than say petty theft without any victim physical damage.

• more_corn 4y ago
  General lawlessness leads to violent crime. If people can get away with anything, some of them will just do anything they want. It’s just a hop skip and a jump from stealing to robbery to murder.
  • DoctorOW 4y ago
    That's ridiculous. The motivations are completely different.
    • codersfocus 4y ago
      Where do people’s motivations come from? You’re unenlightened if you think it’s ridiculous. People do a lot of things just out of sheer mimicry. If you air suicidal programming on TV, suicides reliably go up in the broadcast area. Anyway, this specific area was already researched, it is called the Broken Windows theory. “According to a 2001 study of crime trends in New York City by Kelling and William Sousa, rates of both petty and serious crime fell significantly after the aforementioned policies were implemented.”
      • EdwardDiego 4y ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory#Criticis...
• bequanna 4y ago
  This is exact same attitude that has gotten SF into this mess.