High Crime Eco 2.0

[Hatchet Jack]

What happened? Per patch notes: "The police station will patrol regularly to decrease the crime rate, and all zone type buildings will increase crime rate depending on the police service coverage."

Started a new city, no mods, pop is 1k, Added a police station and NONE ARE PATROLLING. Police station says 2 arrested criminals out of 25 however the police info view says 31 criminals arrested and 25 capacity, Crime scenes are popping up all over. Happiness info view shows -2 due to high crime. Police are fully funded. What happened? Did I miss something? Is this normal?

[dulany67]

Not seeing this. I'm over 10K pop.

[Hatchet Jack]

I'm on a custom map with multiple outside connections and outside services enabled. Could that have anything to do with it?

[dulany67]

The outside connections shouldn't matter, but I'm not sure about the custom map.

[kulio]

I have the following situation: 25 thousand inhabitants, 1 police station, 6 small police stations, investigation bureau.

None of this helps: I have a 1% chance of committing an attack. And the probability of success of the crime is 0%.
But for some reason the number of attackers is growing exponentially: now there are 9,700 of them.
At the same time, the game says that 70 people were arrested (but there is no one in the bullpen), and 170 people were sentenced (but only 60 people are in prison).
I don’t understand why the number of attackers and the number of deaths is growing so much.
At the same time, my police are also funded by 150%.

I decided to conduct an experiment and turn off all services except the police, and see what would happen to the number of attackers: all the residents began to leave and I had 7,400 residents left, but there were still 9,800 attackers left)))
Where is the logic on how to fix it? I even took into account import services and it didn't help)

[girlaroundthecorner]

Early in game I had quite a few crime scenes but it's slowed down a bit now. I think traffic caused issues because police cars couldn't get to the location. I have one police station, budget set at 50%, with 15,000 residents and set up a district. Two patrol cars roaming around. Current number of criminals 48 with 1% crime probability. No-one in jail. Think I need to increase the budget as some of the roads are red. Good luck with getting all those crims behind bars!

[Stealthy]

Unemployed people turn into crime to get some income. Lower your unemployment is, less crime you got.

[kulio]

Originally posted by girlaroundthecorner:

Early in game I had quite a few crime scenes but it's slowed down a bit now. I think traffic caused issues because police cars couldn't get to the location. I have one police station, budget set at 50%, with 15,000 residents and set up a district. Two patrol cars roaming around. Current number of criminals 48 with 1% crime probability. No-one in jail. Think I need to increase the budget as some of the roads are red. Good luck with getting all those crims behind bars!

Originally posted by Stealthy:

Unemployed people turn into crime to get some income. Lower your unemployment is, less crime you got.

I had a 0% unemployment rate. Now I have only 2800 residents, and 20700 criminals. How is this possible? 20,000 criminals, although there are only 2,800 residents? And I have 0% success rate of crimes, and 1% probability of crimes.

[Stealthy]

Are you using any mods?

[kulio]

Originally posted by Stealthy:

Are you using any mods?

No, I play exclusively through GFN, and mods don't even work there.

[ChrisB]

Im having the same problem. It started a yesterday, I get a good 8-10 crime scenes on the map all the time 15k pop with 5k criminals lol I dont know what to do. I increased education , police and it didnt change nothing at all. My crime success rate keep rising im at 55%. Got 4 police station with extended garage also. Not using any mods that affect simulation details.

[Turcca]

I have similar problem: In a city of 6k, I let the game run a bit too long without a police station. Now it's spiraling out of control. Even with police station and a prison to handle every corner of the map, I have 4k criminals in the city and rising. Everything on map looks full on green, but there are ~800 crimes per month and success rate is ~60%.

Yes my police are arresting criminals all the time. I have 600+ sentenced and 200 arrested.

[Stealthy]

Homeless bug. Remove parks and arrange free path / mass transit to map edge.

[martinolund]

homeless bug indeed. Install the mod "bye bye homeless" until the devs can patch it.

[Major Kudos™]

No crime problems with crime in my 45 year old city.