Paying more for policing doesn’t stop or reduce crime, say researchers

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Paying more for policing doesn’t stop or reduce ******, say researchers

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In 2023, the cost of policing to ********* taxpayers closed in on

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for the first time. While annual police budgets continue to grow, there is little debate in the media about its cost to taxpayers and the value for money in relation to ****** reduction.

This

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is now coinciding with disturbing increases in violent ******. Homicides are up, stoking public *****.

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has returned to levels seen 20 years ago. Canada’s

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is second only to the ******* States among G7 countries, and is rising as the ********* rate drops.

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is six times that of non-Indigenous people, and it’s three times higher for ****** men.

With

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women experiencing some form of ********* in their lifetimes, intimate partner and ******* ********* is now recognized as

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levels.

More money not leading to less ******

The majority of policing costs are paid from

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and have risen faster than expenditures on transit or social services. The cost of policing at the municipal level per capita varies considerably from a high of $496 annually for Vancouver to a low of $217 in Québec City.

Though much of the rhetoric for justifying increasing police budgets is about ******,

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over the last 20 years in Canada could not find any correlation between increases in municipal police budgets and a reduction in ****** rates.

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of studies in the ******* Kingdom and the ******* States shows that investments in programs tackling

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give better returns than innovations like

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Police budget increases do not impact ****** rates significantly and do not make us safer. When the

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along with other government services by 20 percent, it had no dramatic impact on ****** rates. A simple

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, which have almost the same populations, shows that Chicago’s 13,000 police officers—7,000 more than Toronto—have not been enough to close the gap from Chicago’s 600 homicides annually to Toronto’s 70.

Increases in violent ****** in Canada are happening in concert with increases in spending on policing, as well as

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and

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. This means more harm to victims and fewer public dollars available for initiatives that improve community safety.

Cost assessment

In 2008, researchers at Canada’s Justice Department examined the social and economic costs of ******, including estimates of the tangible and intangible

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.

In our review, we followed the same methodology to update their analysis to 2022 dollars and the current population. Our annual total, including court and corrections costs, is $22 billion, 68 percent of which is for policing. In addition, our estimates of the costs of harm to victims are $23 billion for tangible costs like property and productivity losses and at least $100 billion for intangible costs like pain and suffering.

We’ve previously examined programs that showed addressing risk factors can reduce ******, but there are few studies delving into the return of investment on these programs. For some time, ********* experts have cited a 2010 study that found

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in reduced ********* involvement and costs to the justice system.

Today, there are existing programs and initiatives where the return on investment is much higher.

Stop Now and Plan (SNAP) is a ********* program that counsels young people on how to deal with emotions in social situations and helps families through interventions with children ages six to 12,

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return on investment per dollar spent.

Life skills training for youth aged 12 to 14 years old reduces alcohol and ***** ****** and ********* with a

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. This is a U.S. initiative that’s been replicated in Canada.

Taxpayer savings

Public Safety Canada has illustrated the impact of Stop Now and Plan, along with a program helping youth at risk avoid a life of ****** and a support program for families.

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are more ************* than the aforementioned studies, but are nevertheless impressive because they illustrate large savings to taxpayers in Canada through early intervention.

They show a 30 percent decrease in spending on policing, courts and corrections—potentially $7 billion in taxpayer savings a year for each program. We believe taxpayers could save another $7 billion in costs like lost productivity and property loss and $30 billion pertaining to the harm inflicted on victims of ******.

The evidence is clear: making people safer is about being smart with investments that reduce ******, not increasing taxes to pay for what doesn’t.

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, two-thirds of respondents said it would be more effective to put money and effort towards addressing social and economic problems such as ***** addiction, homelessness and mental health than strengthening law enforcement.

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in Canada show overwhelming public support for prevention measures.

Canada could be inspired by the British ********* reduction initiative which has shown ****** reductions of

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in injuries and police response.

In the U.S., President Joe Biden’s administration has launched an

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and is promoting state and city offices to apply what works.

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, have reduced violent ****** by more than 50 percent.

Investing in ********* prevention works to reduce ******, harm to victims and costly spending on policing and ********* justice.

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