I noticed crime stats in my neighborhood shifted after the new lighting went up on Maple Avenue last March

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Oh absolutely, I noticed the same thing over on my street when they swapped out the old lights for those brighter LED ones on Elm back in November. The police blotter in our little online neighborhood group showed way fewer car break-ins and loitering calls in the next few months, from what I could tell just skimming through. It's not a perfect fix or anything, but in my experience that kind of lighting change really does shift things around.

reese_hayes711d ago

It's like when they changed the street parking rules over on Maple and suddenly everyone started actually following them for a few months.

lily_torres311d ago

Just because the numbers dropped on paper doesn't mean the lighting actually caused it. Those records are self-reported and people get lazy calling stuff in, plus cops might focus their patrols somewhere else once they think the problem is solved. Correlation isn't causation, you know? It could be a dozen other things like the weather, or that new neighborhood watch app everyone keeps forgetting to update.