<story><title>NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nanis</author><text>&amp;gt; The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3% to 6% during the slowdown.&lt;p&gt;1. Why call the cops if you know they won&amp;#x27;t do anything?&lt;p&gt;2. Relatedly, why &amp;quot;snitch&amp;quot; when you know there won&amp;#x27;t be any cops around?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bkirwi</author><text>FWIW, this is addressed in the article and the paper it covers: the slowdown involved reduced &amp;quot;proactive policing&amp;quot; -- &amp;quot;systematic and aggressive enforcement of low-level violations&amp;quot; -- but the observed drop is in major crimes like burglary and assault. The authors also do some work to control for the overall crime reporting rate.</text></comment>
<story><title>NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nanis</author><text>&amp;gt; The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3% to 6% during the slowdown.&lt;p&gt;1. Why call the cops if you know they won&amp;#x27;t do anything?&lt;p&gt;2. Relatedly, why &amp;quot;snitch&amp;quot; when you know there won&amp;#x27;t be any cops around?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tus89</author><text>what does the word proactive mean to you?</text></comment>