Six years ago, the police force of Harrisville was reduced, in an effort to make a smaller but more efficient force  In the first two years, crimes in Harrisville, especially by career criminals, were at a higher rate than they had been in the previous decades
Then, for the most recent four years, the crime rate has been the lowest in the seventy years on record, with the significant drop in crimes by career criminals
By the end of the second year of the newly organized police force, a large proportion of career criminals operating in Harrisville had been captured and incarcerated.