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by jamesbritt 4338 days ago
Things like sidewalks and bright street lamps have a positive effect (no surprise there).

There may be some surprise there.

The correlation between street lighting and safety is not obvious.

"In 2008, PG&E Corp., the San Francisco-based energy company, reviewed the research and found 'either that there is no link between lighting and crime, or that any link is too subtle or complex to have been evident in the data.'"

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-02-24/turn-down-t...

http://www.popcenter.org/responses/street_lighting/2