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The article mentions higher conviction rates, which kind of makes sense. I was talking to the police in my little town about juevenile crime (vandalism, etc.). They said usually they find it's one or two individuals causing the majority of the problems and once they "take care of it" there's a lot fewer problems.
I can see how with better conviction taking care of the career criminals, that leaves the, what would you call it, "criminals by circumstance" committing less property crime. I'd hypothesize that it'd be the career criminals one'd need to worry more about as far as defense carrying.