[nostromo]

This is entirely dependent on what city you live in and who you elect to local leadership positions.

My brother's bike was stolen in college when he lived in Logan Utah. As a non-native he was shocked to find that the cops put out a description of the stolen bike immediately and it was spotted and returned within hours. I believe an arrest was also made.

There's no reason we just need to accept that you can steal anything you like and nobody will care. This is a direct response to the people we're putting in power.

[TreeRingCounter]

Logan is >80% Mormon. Indeed, when you have high-trust, high-IQ, low-crime demographics, it becomes a lot more practical to address property crimes - there aren't very many of them, and there aren't many serious crimes higher up the todo list.

It has some, but not all, to do with the people in power. The demographics of a city like NYC are such that you would have to 10x police expenditures and radically expand police powers to get property crime down to those of places like Logan.

[mercutio2]

Is there some reason to think the median Mormon has a higher IQ than the median American?

I think high trust and low population density has a lot more to do with it.

[melagonster]

this is very interesting. when I first heard the condition: one religion control everything from government to local community and companies, I think it should be terrible, but I so frequently heard about how they are so good at system.

[lostlogin]

Theocracy has been tried, it has a few drawbacks.