Submitted by thinkcontext t3_11bqoiw in washingtondc
brodies t1_ja3603u wrote
Reply to comment by BrightThru2014 in Chief: DC Police Staffing at Its Lowest in Decades by thinkcontext
I want one specific data point on violent crime: how much of the reduction is due to a reduction in snatch and grab robberies of phones? It’s a violent crime as defined by DC (and most jurisdictions), and due to that, when you looked at crime maps in the early 2010s, many of the most “violent” places were near popular metro stations like Dupont Circle. With Apple and Google increasingly making phones worth less and less to steal (by locking them down, etc, such that a theft now is good only for conning someone into buying a useless phone or parting it out), those crimes have seemed to drop precipitously.
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