@adamsaidsomething @sillyCoelophysis @heatherhorns_lite @mekkaokereke There is an extra effect on crime overreporting: teenagers believing, often incorrectly, that there is a very high demand of not just police but crime prevention related jobs.
I teach secondary, in Spain. "Police" used to be an option for bright kids who didn't want advanced studies. Now many of the brightest students want to do Crime Science, or Psychology with a crime slant at University. There is a catch: there are police jobs, but this country has, roughly, a homicide a day. There is *zero* need for all those detectives and profilers. They don't believe me when I tell them those jobs don't exist.
I assume the same happens elsewhere.