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Some interesting numbers and quotes from the article when you put them together: "As of July 31, Oakland had 626 officers - still far less than the 800-plus of
by ddlatham 13y ago
Some interesting numbers and quotes from the article when you put them together:
"As of July 31, Oakland had 626 officers - still far less than the 800-plus officers the city had in 2010."
2010: 2917 robberies
2013: 5311 robberies (pace through Sept. 22)
"In early 2013, police Lt. Chris Bolton analyzed robberies across the city and found that roughly 75 percent involved a smartphone."
"So far this year, crime, as a whole in Oakland is stagnant. Shootings are down. Homicide has dropped by 13 percent...But robberies are up. A lot."
- yapcguy 13y agoSmartphones are just one more thing to rob, along with cash and jewellery. With smartphone penetration on the rise, it's pretty obvious that more robberies would involve smartphones, but it wouldn't necessarily mean that smartphones are responsible for a rise in robberies. Having said that, waving a $700 smartphone around in public will mark you as a potential target, rather than the person next to you with an old-school flip-phone.
- mathattack 13y agoFreakonomics discussed crime decreasing in New York. A lot of it was just due to more police.