Op-Ed: Heat fuels crime. Smart policies can break the link and save lives (via latimesopinion)
The heat doesn’t torture everyone in the same way. Wealthy people are protected from the worst of it. Those who don’t hop on a rocket to space still might use more conventional coping strategies like slipping away to a vacation somewhere cooler. Those who don’t escape the city still are spared, because more affluent people tend to live in cooler parts of cities and have access to newer housing featuring central air conditioning.
Poor people, meanwhile, face the greatest challenges posed by extreme weather. Empirical researchers have documented several troubling data patterns that emerge when people are trapped in hot conditions. to high heat. This educational gap associated with heat exposure decreases when such schools install central air conditioning. Inmore fights break out on hot days in prisons that do not have air conditioning.documents that heat exposure raises the likelihood of being a victim of violent crime in poor neighborhoods in the city of Los Angeles . It is well known that violent crime rates are higher in poorer parts of the city.
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