Toronto police chief credits police overtime for drop in crime

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Following a string of high-profile public shootings – in the Eaton Centre food court, on College Street and at a block party on Danzig Street – more than 300 officers put in long stretches of overtime.

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Gun-related slayings have averaged 6.4 during that period over the last seven years; this year, there were two.

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Toronto police chief credits police overtime for drop in crime - The Globe and Mail

Who would have thought, more cops means less crime?

I wonder what a right to self defense and armed citizens defending themselves would do to the crime stats?