More cops and more $ doesn't actually reduce crime, it turns out.
Sources: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YVzzFkAtJbzJ_v0paDdHqG-iV9ZooRLmqfP6O4jLZ0I/edit?usp=sharing
"I was going to be gay and do crime but then we got more cops so now I see a cop car drive by every day instead of every other day, so now I'm going to brunch instead"
- How right wingers believe people are thinking
i was gonna mug someone so i could pay rent but recent legislation increased sentencing from 3 years to 7 years, it's not worth it anymore =/
I argued with someone on r*ddit about this recently and from what I remember the only consistent statistically significant correlations between policing and reduction in crime are auto thefts and theft from autos (private property, who wouldathunk!) Yglesias wrote a shitty article trying to dispute this, and this Twitter thread is a really good account of why Yglesias' points were full of shit and bad misreadings of the data he was citing (even one of the authors said his findings were interpreted incorrectly): https://twitter.com/humanprovince/status/1274007772464644097
theres only like 2 people out here so you kill one person crime rate shoots up 50%
Well, if you counted all the violence committed by cops, it might a little bit
