Quote Originally Posted by mojo
There have been many studies that show increasing policing has no effect on overall crime rates.
Like I said to oskar, we're not talking about reducing police here, we're talking about abolishing. Are there any case studies where the police completely disappeared off the streets and crime did not go up? That's what we're looking at here. An increase or decrease having no effect doesn't tell us if the police presence itself is important, it only tells us that it's not linear.