According to the equimarginal principle,a city's crime prevention budget should be allocated such that
A) The last dollar spent on detection and apprehension of criminals should yield the same addition to people's benefits as the last dollar spent determining guilt or innocence and the last dollar spent on corrections and punishment
B) Total benefits of crime prevention are equal to total costs
C) Expenditure on court services proceeds exceed those on the police force because services of a lawyer are more expensive than those of a policeman or policewoman
D) The same number of police officers patrol each square block at the margins of the city's residential area
E) The same number of police officers are used per square block in the city's suburbs as in its downtown area
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