Our analyses looked at broad metropolitan patterns, not the relationship of undocumented immigration and crime rates in distinct, specific places such as New York City and Los Angeles. Nor does our study address the reasons that immigration reduces crime, although there is plenty of other scholarship on that issue.
how come they only focused on broad metro areas and not any other populated cities?
how do they overall reduce crime? thats a key point that should be discussed more.
we found that as the size of the undocumented population increases, the property crime rate decreases, on average.
that's very interesting to me. the fact that when the population increases crime decreases. i wonder why that is.
For example, we found in a 2017 study with colleagues that from 1970 to 2010 metropolitan areas with greater concentrations of immigrants, legal and undocumented combined, have less property crime than areas with fewer immigrants, on average. Critics suggested that our findings would not hold if we looked at only the subset of undocumented individuals. So we decided to find out if they were right. Our new study is the result of that effort, and it confirms our original findings: Undocumented immigration, on average, has no effect on violent crime across U.S. metropolitan areas.
the fact that proof and statistics has redeemed undocumented immigrants as not harmful and not rapists and murders, yet people still choose to treat them like they're is so sad.
President Donald Trump. In the second and final presidential debate, Trump again claimed undocumented immigrants are rapists and murderers.
this shows how someone of high power can influence public opinion even when evidence says otherwise
Undocumented immigrants may actually make American communities safer – not more dangerous – new study finds
why do people believe undocumented immigrants increase crime?
this title immediately challenges a common belief that undocumented immigrants increase crime