does tough on crime policy work?
(3). Regardless of the cause, the following statistics show that getting tough on crime is not a successful policy. The charts below list each state in order of its crime rate and then lists its law-enforcement expenditures, prison population rate, poverty rate and high school dropout rate.ummary Hiring more police officers and throwing more people into prison does not reduce crime -- in fact, those states which pursue this strategy tend to have the highest crime rates. And this is true internationally as well; the nations with the toughest approach to crime have the most of it.