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Paying more for policing doesn’t stop or reduce crime

By Irvin Waller, Emeritus professor of Criminology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Jeffrey Bradley, Ph.D. Candidate, Legal Studies, Carleton University

An analysis of trends over the last 20 years in Canada could not find any correlation between increases in municipal police budgets and a reduction in crime rates. There’s another way forward.

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