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A new U.S. study shows that in high-trust neighbourhoods, those with a larger dog population had robbery rates that were almost two-thirds lower and murder rates that were cut in half.
Neighborhoods high in dog concentration had about two-thirds the robbery rates of those low in dog concentration and about half the homicide rates, the study found.