ClydeR
05-29-2012, 11:27 AM
According to the study, a 10 percent increase in trees roughly equaled a 12 percent decrease in crime. “It’s really pretty striking how strong this relationship is,” says Austin Troy, director of the University of Vermont’s Transportation Research Center and lead author of the study, published in the June issue of the journal Landscape and Urban Planning.
More... (http://grist.org/cities/in-baltimore-the-gods-will-not-save-you-but-the-trees-will/)
Do the trees deter crime? Perhaps they come alive at night and scare off criminals, who have never reported it out of fear of admitting to a crime.
Or are people who live low crime areas more likely to plant trees?
Which politician will be first to seize on this solution to crime?
More... (http://grist.org/cities/in-baltimore-the-gods-will-not-save-you-but-the-trees-will/)
Do the trees deter crime? Perhaps they come alive at night and scare off criminals, who have never reported it out of fear of admitting to a crime.
Or are people who live low crime areas more likely to plant trees?
Which politician will be first to seize on this solution to crime?