> What is important is crime rate given exposure. Not crime rate. Exposure to what? > What matters is interventions and policy in reaction to each observation

> What is important is crime rate given exposure. Not crime rate. Exposure to what? > What matters is interventions and policy in reaction to each observation Responding to individual incidents usually produces terrible legislation. It's hard to get legislators and the public to back off and stop demanding harmful and expensive reprisals, to instead do something that actually works. e.g. the very successful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Reduction_Unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Reduction_Unit