What is the crime rate in Chicago?
Has the crime rate increased or decreased in Chicago?
Does people feel safer living in Chicago ?
The role of police is to reduce crime in Chicago. Is it working?
Has the crime rate increased or decreased in Chicago?
Does people feel safer living in Chicago ?
The role of police is to reduce crime in Chicago. Is it working?
Is this a study about police and no police and the effects it has on crime rates? Not sure what you were reading.
Perhaps to someone who lives in Chicago, it’s “obvious” which of these is true. But that’s not usually good enough for science: we want to base our claims on evidence, not on our intuitions.
As to the OP, I would argue the job of police is really to just 'keep a lid on things'.
We don't not run around killing each other because 'policing' - we don't do it because it's immoral, wrong, self-defeating etc..
Solving 'high crime' probably necessitates a whole slew of social things, including policing - and once the situation arrives at something resembling civil, the police deal with crimes that are more or less rare and on the margins. Or more serious things like organized crime.
In my suburban upbringing I barely ever saw police, and I think I had one interaction with them regarding a traffic ticket. It's literally the only time I've had an interaction with law enforcement growing up. I didn't know a single person growing up who interacted with the police in any more than those terms.
If you can get a community to that point of stability/baseline prosperity, policing is something different entirely than 'there are 50 people shot this weekend, gangs control parts of town, kids going to school face real violence'.