Did everyone just start to? No.... LOL. Some people did take advantage of the vacuum of consequences from a force that would seek to bring them to justice... so murder went up... Did I say it went uponly because of the police going on strike? But it did because they went on strike, along with the factors in life that lead people to crimes... the police only act as the barrier to make people think before they do something because they know the police is there to try to catch them. when the police are not there, then that part of the consequence is lessened.