How to Reduce Crime in dCity

Yesterday morning I woke up to this (image below).

Wow! 😲 I basically lost 400 SIM income due to a crimes (Casino). I didn't know this could happen.

Of course, it was time for me to understand why that happened and, most of all, how to prevent that from happening again in the future.

Understanding Why Crime Happens in dCity

During my research, I began to understand that crime events are only normal in dCity.

In general, factors like taxes or crime will always influence your city and your daily SIM income.

In fact, crime is an in-game random event that happens every 24 hours with a certain probability.

Crime probability is mainly based on the population in your city. The number of homeless and immigrants in your city will have a minimal effect.

Crime probability (image below for my city) is refreshed every 24 hours by the time your daily rewards are about to be distributed to you.

You can also keep an eye on this from your Stats. This below represents the CRIME CHANCE (% figure) for my city.

And this below is the CRIMES (absolute number) for my city.

When crime events happen, your city may be robbed.

You can be robbed of:

• 5% of the day's income due to General Crime
• 1000 SIM from Central Bank
• 400 SIM from Casino (this is exactly what happened to me)
• 300 SIM from a Car Dealership
• 150 SIM from a Bank
• 75 SIM from a Shopping Mall

How to Reduce Crime in dCity

Of course, I kept "tumbling down the rabbit hole" to find out exactly how to reduce the crime rate.

Here's what I found out.

The following buildings will reduce the probability of crime:

• Gym
• Court
• Cinema
• Police Station

It's worth noting that Police Station and Court will have a 5X greater effect on crime than Gym and Cinema.

You can buy as many of those 👆 cards as you need to help you reduce crime; as they are stackable.

Also note that it's not enough just to sell your Casinos, Banks or Shopping Malls, there's always a chance of getting robbed.

And, something extra you can do to decrease crime is:

• Poker night: Decrease crime rate in your city by 5-20% (random)

Something else to remember is this 👇

1K+ Daily Income = Criminal May Appear

When crime happens and your city has more than 1000 SIM daily income, there's a chance that one of the citizens can become a criminal.

The probability for that to happen is the reversed crime chance.

For example, if the chance of crime is 20% and crime actually happens, the probability to get a new criminal is 80% (100% - 20% = 80%).

Purchase Technology Cards to Further Reduce Crime

Generally, technology cards can be used to boost your city.

Anyone holding the card gets the boost, but if you'd like to be able to discover the technology you need to unlock it.

As you can see below, I am ready to unlock a card.

You can unlock one technology every 36 hours, or unlock immediately by spending 900 SIM.

Unlocking cost goes up with level of tech: 30 SIM, 60, 150, 500, 1000 (see image above).

Unlocking a technology doesn’t give you the actual technology card and bonus. It only makes you eligible to discover that technology.

Discovery happens every 24 hours at 1800 UTC - the probability for discovery is calculated from education: 40 education = 1% chance with a max cap of 25%.

When discovering technology, the player will receive the actual random technology card with the associated bonus.

But let's go back to the main topic here: Crime.

The Control category (image above) is the one you want to focus on to reduce crime in your city.

In particular:

• Police Equipment: Police Station crime reduction of 1%
• Drone Technology: Decreases the crime rate of 5%
• RoboCop: Police Station Crime reduction of 2%
• Neural Network: Decreases crime rate by 10%

So, there you go.

This is all I could find out about how to reduce crime in my city.

Feel free to add your thoughts and let me know if I missed something.

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