> Why not make universal basic income conditional on the crime rate? There are lots of good answers for why not to do this, but the simplest that is sufficient

> Why not make universal basic income conditional on the crime rate? There are lots of good answers for why not to do this, but the simplest that is sufficiently decisive, I think, is Goodhart's Law. > Do you think this would be a good way to keep the crime rate low in a city/country with UBI? It would be a good way to make the official crime rate track the UBI-related policy preferences of whatever authority was in charge of crime statistics.