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Footing the Bill

Crime’s Cost on US Taxpayers

Infographic showing US taxpayers' costs for crime including illegal dumping, graffiti cleanup, waste, and police response.

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Sources

Baltimore City Department of Public Works Fy23 Annual Report on Actions Taken to Remediate Illegal Dumping in Baltimore City.
Baltimore City, Dec. 2023, pp. 1–23, publicworks.baltimorecity.gov/sites/default/files/Baltimore%20City%20FY23 %20Illegal%20Dumping%20Remediation%20Report.pdf. Accessed 18 Jul. 2024.

Hohl, Bernadette C., et al. “Community Identified Characteristics Related to Illegal Dumping; a Mixed Methods Study to Inform Prevention.”
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Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 346, Elsevier BV, Nov. 2023, pp. 118930–30, doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118930. Accessed 12 Dec. 2023.

Hunt, Priscillia Evelyne, et al. “Estimates of Law Enforcement Costs by Crime Type for Benefit-Cost Analyses.”
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, vol. 10, no. 1, Dec. 2018, pp. 95–123, doi.org/10.1017/bca.2018.19.

Mendelson, Aaron. “LA Scrubs Away 30 Million Square Feet of Graffiti Each Year.”
LAist, 10 Sep. 2015, laist.com/news/kpcc-archive/la-scrubs-away-30-million-square-feet-of-graffiti. Accessed 18 Jul. 2024.

Rodgers, Bethany, and Eric Peterson. “Taxpayers Spent over Half a Million Dollars to Clean Homeless Encampments in 2021.”
The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Jul. 2022, sltrib.com/news/2022/07/21/taxpayers-spent-over-half/.Accessed 18 Jul. 2024.

Silver, Matthew R. “How Cities Can Remove and Deter Graffiti and Maximize Cost Recovery.”
Western City Magazine, 1 Aug. 2013, westerncity.com/article/how-cities-can-remove-and-deter-graffiti-and-maximize-cost-recovery.

“Wages and Salary – SLCPD.”
Salt Lake City Police, slcpd.com/careers/joinourteam/wages-and-salary/. Accessed 18 Jul. 2024.

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