‘Paws on the street’ makes high-trust areas safer, study finds. If you want to find a safe neighborhood to live in, choose one where the residents trust each other – and have a lot of dogs to walk. To find a safe neighborhood to live in, choose a community where people trust one another and have
In a new study, researchers found that neighborhoods with more dogs had lower rates of homicide, robbery, and aggravated assaults compared to areas with fewer dogs.If you want to find a safe neighborhood to live in, choose one where the residents trust each other – and have a lot of dogs to walk.
The results indicate that people walking their dogs puts more “eyes on the street,” which can discourage crime, according to Nicolo Pinchak, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in sociology at“People walking their dogs are essentially patrolling their neighborhoods,” Pinchak said. “They see when things are not right, and when there are suspect outsiders in the area. It can be a crime deterrent.
They obtained survey data from a marketing firm that asked Columbus residents in 2013 if they had a dog in their household.study to measure trust in individual neighborhoods. As part of that study, residents were asked to rate how much they agreed that “people on the streets can be trusted” in their neighborhoods.
But among high-trust neighborhoods, those with high concentrations of dogs showed an additional drop in crime compared to those with low concentrations of dogs. Results showed that the trust and dog-walking combination helped reduce street crimes: those crimes like homicides and robberies that tend to occur in public locations, including streets and sidewalks.
The protective effect of dogs and trust was found even when a wide range of other factors related to crime was taken into account, including the proportion of young males in the neighborhood, residential instability and socioeconomic status.
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