Re:Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy
by generalizations on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:59PM
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> When you get to the social sciences, evidence is much more easily wished for than provided.
Yeah, though that just means it's harder to actually find out what's true. That's why the replication crisis in psychological sciences is a crisis. We can't treat gaps in our knowledge like supporting evidence.
> Namely that activities on the part of police aimed at increasing trust within problem communities, result in those communities experiencing a decrease in violence and crime.
That sounds great, and does seem like you're right about that specific item.
However some of the successes of community policing (particularly when you have neighboring cities, one of which adopts it and another of which doesn't) do suggest a causal link with causality going the right way. Namely that activities on the part of police aimed at increasing trust within problem communities, result in those communities experiencing a decrease in violence and crime.