New details from the Phoenix Police Department reveal an officer fatally shot a man who had disarmed a home invasion suspect before police arrived at a home near 75th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road on Jan. 26.
crimes would still get reported, they just wouldn’t have the officers working on them to clear the cases so the clearance percentages would go down instead. like, how many crimes are really prosecuted because they happened in front of the police
Yeah people were still reporting crime, the police just slow rolled their job to let major crime go up but it didn’t
“The results challenge prevailing scholarship as well as conventional wisdom on authority and legal compliance, as they imply that aggressively enforcing minor legal statutes incites more severe criminal acts.”
Where the contradicting conventional wisdom was more aggressively policing the smaller things led to less crime overall, ala broken windows, they found the opposite actually happens.
crimes would still get reported, they just wouldn’t have the officers working on them to clear the cases so the clearance percentages would go down instead. like, how many crimes are really prosecuted because they happened in front of the police
Yeah people were still reporting crime, the police just slow rolled their job to let major crime go up but it didn’t
“The results challenge prevailing scholarship as well as conventional wisdom on authority and legal compliance, as they imply that aggressively enforcing minor legal statutes incites more severe criminal acts.”
Where the contradicting conventional wisdom was more aggressively policing the smaller things led to less crime overall, ala broken windows, they found the opposite actually happens.