Easy steps to Counter Crime Death Spiral | Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic 

Yep...not sure why I didn't say that, but that's exactly what I did... however, it still requires enough workers and uni workers, which is really the main issue here.

You can build 11 small police stations with the same steel needed for a single large one. Also large police station has 20 workers, 40 officers and 8 cars compared to 8 workers, 10 officers, 4 cars on the small one. On a crime wave, it seems building 8 small police stations with one car each is cheaper and way more effective than a single large one since the higher ratio of officers to crime seems to result in better chance to solve crimes. I tried this in my map: emergent crime wave reaching 10% in some buildings, build like 4 large police stations full of cars and it failed (crime kept increasing because of unresolved case load). Then I reloaded the save and built 8 small police stations with 1 car each. Got it under control.

I mean, that's basic math...80 officers for 8 cars is at least 2x as efficient as 40 officers for 8 cars. I do believe going this route instead of what I did with the big stations is a better approach, because of the cost savings, which may have resulted in enough leftover cash for more citizens... I do have a hypothesis, that all personal inside a building works on the cases, in which case a large station with 1-4 cars would still be more efficient than 4 small police stations with 1 car, but I haven't tested that yet. Now, don't forget, the most important thing is that you actually resolve crimes, and attend to all crimes, as long as you have enough cars to arrive at all crime scenes, you are good there, the other side of the investigation is the next step, and that requires ample workers that are ready to work. The number of cars still only changes the case load per building. In the grand scheme of things, once you get into this situation, its very difficult to get out of it, not impossible, but it requires a lot of resources to make it happen, and there is a limit. The real solution is to not get into this situation in the first place. In this case sentences were set too long, and not enough wardens existed, fixing those 2 small things would have avoided all of this.

Yep, that all depends on having enough workers present in stations and court and prison, plus actually having a general positive effect in the prison.

Nice!

Haha! I think that could work, but I don't think we had the numbers overall...I mean micromanaging all workplaces to the absolute mins could have helped with the workforce for sure, and helicopters would be pretty easy to setup... maybe, just maybe that would have saved just enough money on workers to make it work;)

So, 5 years should pretty much be your max sentence length?

@@bballjo Personally I never do more then 4 years for serious crimes, less then 2 for medium and I think I have 0,7 for petty theft

That sounds like a rough life;)

I think you are generalizing a little much. You can totally reach upper 80s for happiness without much fuss, you just have to do the standard: everything in walking range, and cities less than 7k, so you don't overload buildings, then just keep on top of crime and you have no issues. I was even able to get into the 80s with my large, public transport dependent 20k citizens city in season 6...

I don't know. Naturally I always reach close to 90% no probs with Crime and loyalty. Granted, I am no God at this game, and I struggle to make a profit (I usually run on infinite money), but I don't think that what I do is so expensive or would make it impossible to have a viable republic. I just expand slowly and monitor everything.

You don't need to give electronics in general. You only need to if you want to use TV/radio, otherwise it's just a small penalty, and it's mostly desired by university educated.

Now you just made early game a lot easier for me. Electronics can be a drain when you have a lot of people, but still researching more advanced industries

100% happiness sounds like you aren't playing on hard settings, and yes, things are easier then.

The solution in realistic mode is to not mismanage your settings... realistic mode is the least forgiving mode for a reason, and is not really meant for players that aren't familiar with everything.

Funny you mention that, because I apparently forgot to say that...I tried it, but the problem was that we still only had sporadic workers at the station, and cases still didn't get solved. For reference I used 2 cars per station.

@@bballjo Ok, in this case the workers were the problem. But is it in general a good option? I mean, is there a difference between cases not solved and cases not "picked up"? In the end only bringing people to jail will cure them, so at least get some solved. Or do I miss something?

Yes, the only way cases get to a station is with cars. I would not discount the part with crimes never making it to the police station, reduces happiness and loyalty and may increase crime. The real solution is to not get into this situation in the first place and paying attention to you crime and justice setup.

It's the other way around... If you don't have an orphanage, orphans just disappear and don't cause any issues. If you do have an orphanage, it has to be working appropriately, like a prison, otherwise there will be a similar crime effect as shown in the video. There was an update a long time ago that's supposed to stop orphanages from overflowing, but I rarely play with them, so it may or may not be working well.

@@bballjo In my republic with population of 107000 people I have 15 orphanages to just barely about to keep up with all the orphans, which I think is way too much, but that (together with adequate law enforcement system) seems to keep the criminality within 1-2%

The only thing orphanages do is increase your population growth slightly, by catching some kids that would otherwise escape...why do you have so many when you are already over 100k citizens?

@@bballjo Well for self challenge of building a utopic republic mostly (try to satisfy all the needs of everyone), so that I guess that include orphans. But currently that runs me into problem of not being able to expand fast enough to house all over 21 citizens, at least without instant building.

Lol

But then who will mine uranium?

The problem would be how to get all criminals to move there, as police is just local...

@@bballjo this is to make a "spectial enclosed settement" for justice workers only to acheive their higher stats.

are you just trying to put Courts and Prisons in that settlement?

@@bballjo Right. To ensure quality.

And how would that help the overrun police stations? Courts and prisons are things that need to be fixed later, without working police stations those are really useless.

this comment makes no sense...exactly at this point in time the cursor is hovering over university educated workers...

@@bballjo 17:38 when you open the big building. it has only 54 university educated workers, and you saying that you invited a lot of them.

@@daniil3815 AH! Yea...I wasnt going to click on every single building and say the same thing, I'm not talk about 1 building, I'm talking about the whole republic.

@@bballjo thanks for clarifying that because I thought you important regular workers into that building which didn't provide police stations with university educated workers.