• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      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.