> The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3% to 6% during the slowdown.
1. Why call the cops if you know they won't do anything?
2. Relatedly, why "snitch" when you know there won't be any cops around?
1. Why call the cops if you know they won't do anything?
2. Relatedly, why "snitch" when you know there won't be any cops around?
Even looking through articles in 2014 and 2015 doesn't provide me with any evidence that police weren't showing up to crime scenes... just that they weren't doing the "proactive policing" thing.
Am I missing something here?
I think there was a documentary about this a few years ago called Minority Report.
County police who took an hour or more to show up finally told my dad to get a gun and explained how we should move the body to make it look like we were being attacked. So that we didn’t get arrested.
So yea we moved promptly.
Neighbors knew family had gone vacation and saw movement at night. Jumpy cop, dark house, sudden movement, dead kid...
Family got big payout, City dismantled the police department.
Paywalled, I didn’t read the article.
Original research is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0211-5
Both authors are political scientists who are highly unlikely to have a command of econometrics. I am not sure if they took into account the panel nature of the data and in those circumstances where authors focus solely on either the cross-section or the time-series nature of the process, it is not uncommon for "results" to be nonsense.