More police does not mean less crime

Indeed, a recent analysis of the most significant studies on the correlation between police levels and crime from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) has found that a 10% increase in officers could lead to a 3% decrease in crime (and vice versa).4 Of course, like most studies on the subject, the report cautions against drawing strong conclusions: “Despite the apparent consistency of [...] It is why the Broken Window approach had such spectacular results in New York City during the 90s, and in Los Angeles during the 2000s.11 By restoring the sense that the law would be enforced, police were able to increase citizen perception of safety. [...] The rate of homicides where the victim and assailant are strangers is only 0.2/100,00017 in Canada, which is less than a third of the rate in the United States.18 The odds of being murdered by a stranger in a given year, 1 in 500,000, aren’t that much better than the odds of being struck by lightning (1 in 775,000/year).19 Moreover, the number of homicides in Prince George (aka the homicide capita [...] Given these challenges, and the limited number of large cities in Canada, it is difficult to construct a statistical model to determine the impact of the number of police per-capita on the level of crime. [...] The crime severity index (CSI), a composite measure of the frequency and severity of crime, on the vertical axis, and the number of police officers 8 No.