medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A city recently increased its police patrols downtown. Despite this, reported crime rates in the area rose significantly over the same period.
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy?
- The substantial cost of the increased downtown patrols was offset by sharply reducing the budget allotted to public parks in other parts of the city
- The city council had been carefully planning and openly debating the increase in downtown patrols for several years before it was finally implemented
- Crime rates in the surrounding suburbs, which received no new patrols of any kind, also increased slightly over the very same reporting period last year
- With officers visibly present, residents grew confident that complaints would be acted on and began reporting offenses they had previously let pass.
- The added patrols sharply reduced the number of unsolved criminal cases the police department had to carry over into the following calendar year
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