> More police presence means more recorded crimes. The article in the headline implies the opposite: statistical inference of future crime location -> more cop

> More police presence means more recorded crimes. The article in the headline implies the opposite: statistical inference of future crime location -> more cops in said location -> no crime in said location. It should be fairly easy to back out an out of sample data set for this - ie predicted crime location where the extra cops didn't get deployed and see if that lines up with empirical observations.