There’s “no consistent association” between police funding and crime rates across the country, according to a published study by University of Toronto researchers.

  • @TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca
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    46 months ago

    If there’s no zero in the dataset, then we don’t have any zero about data. It could be, for instance, that some police have a large effect, but that you hit diminishing returns incredibly quickly.

    • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      That’s literally what I said elsewhere in this thread. People are putting words in my mouth all over this thread but literally all I was saying is that it’s impossible that the headline is true verbatim.