Business Report: Office holiday parties make a comeback

Companies are shelling out as holiday parties make a comeback after two years of pandemic restrictions. Plus, a popular coffee pod producer is going green, and a piece of Titanic memorabilia sells for big money. Richard Southern reports.

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Data Shows No Correlation Between Policing Spending and the Crime Rate - So Why Is Funding Going Up? No Correlation For decades in America we’ve been told by politicians and other leaders that we have to keep spending money on the police if we want to keep our communities safe. It’s been repeated so many times over so many years that many of us probably don’t give it a second thought. But we started wondering… is it actually true? The answer surprised us, and it might surprise you too. A recent studyOpens a new window took a look at police spending and crime rates and found that there’s no correlation at all between the two. Seeing that made us dig a little deeper into the numbers. According to data collected over the past 60 years, from 1960 to 2018, spending more on policing doesn’t lower the crime rate and spending less on policing doesn’t increase it. Despite that total lack of correlation, politicians always seem to call for more police spending when the crime rate goes up. But what about when crime goes down-what do they do then? You guessed it! They keep calling for increased police spending. No matter what happens, the response is always the same: Put more money in police budgets.