Quote from: killboy on April 29, 2012, 11:59 pmPine, I zctually wrote a paper on luminosity and crime. I used a particular city as an example. This city thought it could cut electric costs by turning off street lamps. Critics outcried claiming crime rates would increase. In the end, nothing actually happened to the crime rates and in some areas crime decreased.LOL, that fits with my hypothesis that daylight has little to do with a reduction in crime or visa versa. I would however, have thought that the perception of crime would have influenced the perpetrators of it e.g. the broken window theory that LE has, so that removing street lamps would have given brash young men more confidence to mug people, simply because that's what everybody expected them to do. Perhaps in reality muggers like to see what they're doing in case they get mugged :D