The correlation is negative, but strangely weak, at -0.10.

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However, as Geoffrey Dicks at Novus Capital markets pointed out recently, short-term, the correlation with the official data is pretty weak.

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Specifically, the correlation between winning and payroll was relatively weak in 2010.

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The correlation between policing levels and violent crime in the UK is "very weak", it concludes.

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