My cities skylines town wants police coverage, so I give them a police station. They need more. But I can't give them more. I can only give them another police station. They want education, so I give them an elementary school. But another area wants to join in, too. The city's still small, but my only option is to place another identical school not even 5 blocks away. I can't expand rooms or add busses. Just another school.
My city isn't poor, because that doesn't exist. My city isn't educated very well, but it doesn't really seem to matter. My industry is hardly affected. And there's no crime to speak of. As long as one of those police cars drives by a house, it won't have any crime. Crime seems to only pop up where police cars haven't recently patrolled, as if the criminals always exist, are never caught, are not swayed by parks and education and wealth, and simply wait to see- has that house been seen by a police officer lately? No? Let's hit it, boys. My only solution remains to add yet another station with yet another set of the same amount of police cars. SimCity's police react to crime, which forms based on conditions around the city. Cities Skyline's crime reacts to the police, who don't react to anything- they just patrol around.