Crime rate falls 6% across Canada in 2011
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According to a radio report I heard just last night, the crime rate has dropped in the USA as well.
Treat addictions as illness rather than crimes and those crime stats will drop dramatically.
haha glad to hear it. Sarcasm is difficult to read online at times unfortunately.
haha true. That one was sad. A riot for no good reason.
That shift is already underway but people get miffed. In Vancouver there is a housing facility that supplies hard core drunks with one beer an hour, even I got miffed over that one.
Yes it is tough to read sometimes. There was a running joke on the forums for ages that we ought to have sarcasm font, and everyone joked that purple would suffice. So, some people got the purple for sarcasm. Lol
even though the crime rates are going down, the governments and police forces must continue to instill fear in order to keep raising their budgets in order to control the law-abiding citizens.....making more and more new laws for honest people to break and become criminals
Forgot the words again. Read "Freakonomics" and you'll get a good explanation on why crime is down. Crime, however, should still be punished more severely than it was during the '70s-'90s.
Abortion? Not very convincing. In fact, when other researchers took a stab at that hypothesis, and directly compared the crime rate against age cohorts, they found a statistically significant increase in murder rates. The timing showed the highest increases amongst young males after the legalization in 1973 at the time when the crime rate should have been dropping. Considering the age of young males is central to their hypothesis predicting the timing of the drop in crime rate, that doesn't lead to very strong evidence in favour of that hypothesis.
The correlations don't hold when age is a predictor.
In 1973 the baby boomer's were still coming of age. They would have been approx 8 - 9 years old- The baby boom went from 46 to 64 some say 65-
Next economics -employment opportunities - education play an integral part in crime stats- same with stable families-
Kingston is well over 100 years old.They are old - expensive to upgrade - expensive to maintain
And when the Omnibus crime bills start taking effect- then we will see an increase in prisoners- Some laws do not kick in till next year.
Well we will have to wait and see how the SCoC rules on those cases tossed by Judges.