Blue lights lowering crime rates and suicides

[renaeden]

I found this article and remembered Peter's blue lights.

An intriguing, anecdotal finding was recently reported by some news outlets that the implementation of blue-colored streetlights has reduced both crime and suicides:

    Glasgow, Scotland, introduced blue street lighting to improve the city’s landscape in 2000. Afterward, the number of crimes in areas illuminated in blue noticeably decreased.

    The Nara, Japan, prefectural police set up blue street lights in the prefecture in 2005, and found the number of crimes decreased by about 9 percent in blue-illuminated neighborhoods. Many other areas nationwide have followed suit.

    Keihin Electric Express Railway Co. changed the color of eight lights on the ends of platforms at Gumyoji Station in Yokohama, Japan, in February.

To read more:
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/12/13/can-blue-colored-light-prevent-suicide/

[Peter]

I wonder what happens when they use red lights.

[Pyraxis]

 

A 9% increase in the incidents of prostitution?

[renaeden]

Someone commented:

When they were making the film Cube they discovered that the actors felt angry/unhappy in the red rooms and relaxed in the blue rooms. It’s a fairly fundamental difference, but it would be useful to know what the effect of white lighting would be in preference to yellow lights.

I remember going to some public toilets where the lights in there were blue on purpose, supposedly to stop people injecting drugs because they wouldn't be able to find a vein.

[Peter]

Yellow LPS street lights have a mild negative effect on my mood.

[SovaNu]

Someone commented:

When they were making the film Cube they discovered that the actors felt angry/unhappy in the red rooms and relaxed in the blue rooms. It’s a fairly fundamental difference, but it would be useful to know what the effect of white lighting would be in preference to yellow lights.

I remember going to some public toilets where the lights in there were blue on purpose, supposedly to stop people injecting drugs because they wouldn't be able to find a vein.

i love the cube. differently lit rooms appeal to me.

i like blue lights, they calm me down. i like red lights too though, a friend of mine had red lights in her room and it affected me in a positive way. i even wanted similar lights in my room, i still do. can't decide between red and blue though now that i've seen this, maybe i should choose blue if it is more calming. i don't need more anxiety in my life. then again calming is one thing, red lights might be less melancholy.

yellow lights are horrible.

[Gluey]

Interesting. At this old roller skating rink we used to go to they had to put blue lights in the bathrooms. Somthing that had to do to prevent people from doing heroin.

[SovaNu]

you don't see veins.

maybe the blue light area has less drug addicts and thus less crime.

[sinsboldly]

pondering rollerskating on heroin. . .


Merle

[El]

pondering rollerskating on heroin. . .


Merle

What, you don't think that sounds like the BEST IDEA EVER???

[SovaNu]

when you're on heroin rollers are boring, rather just enjoyyyyy then again i'm very lazy.

[Parts]

pondering rollerskating on heroin. . .


Merle

What, you don't think that sounds like the BEST IDEA EVER???

At least it wouldn't hurt when you fell

[ALLDAYGLOWRANDY]

Its harder to imagine it would decrease suicide, unless you think outside the box.
Blue is supposed to depress, maybe it depresses overly excited personalities. Maybe its these same personalites that are vunerable to depression, by way of overstimulation.

[ALLDAYGLOWRANDY]

It sounds cool, though, and matches my hair

[SovaNu]

blue?

i want blue lights.