Over the past few days, Public intellectual elenchos has put together a fascinating series of graphs describing the size of Seattle’s police force and correlations with the city’s crime rates. The first part in the series demonstrated that our city’s police force was “freakishly small”, yet our violent crime rate remains relatively low [denisbratland ^[1]].

Today, he looks at non-violent crime rates across various cities and shows that a consequence of having a smaller police force may be a higher tolerance for non-violent offenses:

[2] Police and violent crime, sorted by violent crime. Modified for readability at smaller scale from a graph by elnechos [denisbratland [1]]

There’s a lot of data presented very elegantly; well worth examining more closely. He is also willing to share the compiled data for those interested in their own analyses.