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“The slowdown significantly reduced proactive policing… Contradicting arguments that systematically decreasing proactive policing should correspond to increased crime … our results reveal that civilian complaints of major crimes declined by approximately 3–6%."

Evidence That Curtailing Proactive Policing Can Reduce Major Crime

Nature Human Behaviour

Sullivan, Christopher M. / O’Keeffe, Zachary P.

Vol. 1 Issue 10, pp. 730–737, 2017

10.1038/s41562-017-0211-5

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