Thanks for the comment. I'd be happy to argue this point--particularly the last statement on cost-effectiveness since those studies do not include costs to communities from being policed. And the policing effects are on average in panel studies--many cities had large crime declines with no change in police per capita. But the larger point is that proponents of each of these 25 theories make exactly as strong a case for their preferred theory as you did for yours. How then do we select from among the theories?
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Thanks for the comment. I'd be happy to argue this point--particularly the last statement on cost-effectiveness since those studies do not include costs to communities from being policed. And the policing effects are on average in panel studies--many cities had large crime declines with no change in police per capita. But the larger point is that proponents of each of these 25 theories make exactly as strong a case for their preferred theory as you did for yours. How then do we select from among the theories?