PLUS traffic violence is random, meanwhile the majority of violent crime in American cities happen in small areas between people who usually know each other.
Also, allowing for cities to become car free reduces crime because it reduces the amount of money you need to survive, expands the range of job getting for poor people, and reduces things like noise and pollution which negatively impact brain development and make children more irritable which leads to more school fights/suspensions (which are predictors of crime).
Also! Less chance of broken households, because less driving means lower chance of death, and less chance of divorce (see financial aspect), which both heighten the chance of an unstable single parent household. Plus less chance of injury means less people with chronic pain, which means less chance of drug addiction which both reduces demand from drug dealers, and means lower chance of parents becoming absent or otherwise emotionally unstable (meaning less chance of a kid getting fucked up)
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PLUS traffic violence is random, meanwhile the majority of violent crime in American cities happen in small areas between people who usually know each other.
Also, allowing for cities to become car free reduces crime because it reduces the amount of money you need to survive, expands the range of job getting for poor people, and reduces things like noise and pollution which negatively impact brain development and make children more irritable which leads to more school fights/suspensions (which are predictors of crime).
Also! Less chance of broken households, because less driving means lower chance of death, and less chance of divorce (see financial aspect), which both heighten the chance of an unstable single parent household. Plus less chance of injury means less people with chronic pain, which means less chance of drug addiction which both reduces demand from drug dealers, and means lower chance of parents becoming absent or otherwise emotionally unstable (meaning less chance of a kid getting fucked up)