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[–] smsisko@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Having to create a user account to see the stats can source seemed wrong:

There is 35% of that increase in violent crime that is due to extortion. That's not the kind of crime you would see "in the streets"

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240725/dq240725b-eng.htm

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting to compare that to the longer-term data that's available: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240725/cg-b002-eng.htm

Apparently the numbers don't match because they expanded the definition of "violent crime" — so I guess whatever new offenses were added to it must account for most of whatever that huge decline circa 2014 was about.

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[–] The_v@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's an obvious explanation of why the reported numbers change but most of the population can't process the information.

It requires a multi-step of thinking to understand and reverses the assumed conclusion when people first look at the numbers.

its just like when people look at violent crime rates in the 1960's-90's. The reported crime rates were steadily increasing even while the actual violent crime rates fell. What changed was a societal acceptance of what constituted a violent crime.

Suddenly beating the shit out of somebody with a different skin color, your kids, or wife was no longer considered a fun weekend activity and was instead a violent crime.

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[–] missingstring 3 points 1 year ago

Oh that’s interesting, I didn’t realize that. Thanks for the info.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 0 points 1 year ago

Wow 40% increase. That's bad. It also starts almost exactly from when Trudeau took charge so it looks/is even worse.