Crime rates have much more to do with social factors than with the numbers of police officers — rates of social inequality, availability of affordable housing, support for families and young children, and so forth. Opinion by John Sewell
One pervasive urban myth is that more police officers will mean there will be less crime.
Halifax has 210 officers/100,000, with severe crime at 66/100,000. Vancouver, 198 officers/100,000, with severe crime at 81 residents/100,000. And so it goes: other Canadian cities have more police officers per capita than Toronto but they also have higher rates of severe crime. There was a famous study done in Kansas City in the 1970s which shook the police world. The study looked at three neighbourhoods, first documenting the rates of crime and public feelings about personal security.
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