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2018-02-15 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Princeton Ph.D. candidate: More Cops Means Less Crime, Analysis Shows

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-15 05:09|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Kiss your Ph.D. goodby, Steve.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-02-15 06:38|| 2018-02-15 06:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Wonder if those are first time crimes prevented or chronic criminals pulled off the street?

Posted by Skidmark 2018-02-15 06:58|| 2018-02-15 06:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder if I could get a Ph. D. from Princeton for showing that more cops in speed traps reduce speed and traffic deaths?

Posted by Voldemort Ulinert4675 2018-02-15 09:19|| 2018-02-15 09:19|| Front Page Top

#4 More "cops" doesn't necessarily mean less crime. Police Officers actively pursuing and arresting the bad guys and fugitives with active arrest warrants does result in less crime. The dirty secret in the big cities is the existence of tens and even hundreds of thousands of arrest warrants that they don't care about. They just wallow in the pool of criminals and complain they don't have enough resources to fight the crime the criminals are committing.

My point is that more officers in the large bureaucratic departments does not immediately equal more work...

Posted by Tennessee 2018-02-15 09:50|| 2018-02-15 09:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Hard to imagine how this works. Since when do cops arrive before or during a crime? Don't they just show up after the fact and write a report? Isn't that why we carry guns?

Posted by Iblis 2018-02-15 10:59|| 2018-02-15 10:59|| Front Page Top

#6 I see that the author pointedly ignored the increase of allowed gun carrying citizens during the same period of time.

Posted by Roth LaDoad 2018-02-15 11:04|| 2018-02-15 11:04|| Front Page Top

#7 "a reduction of one murder per every 11 police officers"

$1M+ with benefits per 'non-victim'.

Armed citizens are cheaper, but "where's the graft in that?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-02-15 14:49|| 2018-02-15 14:49|| Front Page Top

#8 It takes the Mayor, good Judges and Police Officers to lower crime.
If they are not on-board, it is a frugal exercise.

Posted by newc 2018-02-15 19:00|| 2018-02-15 19:00|| Front Page Top

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