--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: <snip> > > Gee whiz, it's a substantial decrease. Any police > > department that could bring about that big a > > reduction would be elevated to hero status. > > Well, for what cost, is the issue. This stuff is not free -- at least > in scalable quantities. From the graph II, it looks to me like about > 250 assualts may have been "avoided". (Lets focus on assualts for > simplicity, since that is the bulk of the suggested effect.) > Thats 125 assaults/mo. > > Regardless of DC costs, in which particpants may have payed to play, > recent FF experience indicates that even paying R&B for free course > does not draw that many. And in urbane setings R&B/incidentals would > be at least more towards $1000 than $600. And if there was a desire to > scale it up, a salary would be necessary to attract 2000-5000+ YF to > various urbane centers. Maybe $2000/mo min, plus $1000 R&B. Plus > transportation, health insurance, vacation, retirement and other > benefits. And administration, monitoring, research costs. But lets > skip all those for now. > > How many YF in DC? I will assume 1000, but I think it was more > (clarifications). So scalable project costs would be $3 million/month. > $36 millon / year. So the cost per avoided assualt would be in the > range of $24,000 / assault.
Purportedly the crime rate would continue to decrease the longer the group was in business. Do you think there may be more > cost-effective ways of reducing assualts? With more "certainty" -- > (tried and true)? With less controversy? I'd be willing to bet most crime-fighting programs in big cities cost considerably more than that per year over and above normal policing costs.
