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A recent report issued by The Fraser Institute has enlisted the greater Windsor area on a list of top Ten Canadian Cities that have overstaffed police services, however Windsor Police Chief Al Frederick has straightforwardly renounced the number of sworn officers quoted in the report.
In his report, the study’s author and a Fraser Institute fellow and economics professor at Lakehead University, Livio Di Matteo, admits that police fulfill a fundamental role in society by protecting law-abiding citizens from criminals, however it also highlights that “taxpayers can face higher costs for police than the crime rate or other socio-economic factors warrant.” The study, entitled Police and Crime Rates In Canada, has overall analyzed policing levels, local crime rates and other socio-economic factors such as median family income, unemployment rates and youth populations using Statistics Canada data over a ten-year period to calculate the optimal number of police in metropolitan areas. Consequently, the number calculated was than compared to the actual number of police officers in Canadian cities.
Di Matteo concluded that “more police can lead to lower crime but at some point, increased spending on additional police officers has little impact on crime reduction. Today, in many cities across Canada, an excess of police officers are dealing with less and less crime.” Furthermore, Di Matteo highlighted that spending on police has grown over a decade while crime rates have fell, pointing out that some areas have declining rates to a simultaneous increase in police spending.
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