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

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.

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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.

How so? The study showed no consistent association between funding and crime rates. That is true verbatim.

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