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Will Bad Economy Send L.A. Crime Rates Soaring?

By Steven Rodriguez

When the economy goes down, crime rates go up. That’s the general consensus, but reality is more complicated, according to law enforcement officers, economists and criminologists. A poor economy may cause Los Angeles crime rates to ratchet up a notch or two in some categories, but a wholesale crime surge is seen as unlikely. “Everybody thinks it’s just a law of nature, but that’s just not true. There are a lot of things more powerful than the economy operating all the time,” David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention at the John Jay College of Criminal Studies in New York, recently told Columbus Dispatch reporter Elizabeth Gibson. National news reports of distraught, destitute workers killing themselves and the families they can not longer support may have skewed public perception...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on February 23, 2009 (boomark / email).