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 cost of the increased patrols was offset by reducing the budget for public parks in other parts of the city.
- The city council had been planning the increase in patrols for several years prior to implementation.
- Crime rates in the surrounding suburbs also increased slightly during the same period.
- 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 cases the department carried into the following year.
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