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[–] missingstring@retrolemmy.com 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I’m not a Conservative and think that the conservative obsession with crime is overblown and borders on hysterical but it’s incorrect to say that Canadians are as safe as they were 10 years ago. Violent crime has been on the rise every year since 2014 after a sustained period of reduction. We’re now at roughly the same crime rate we were in 2002.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525173/canada-violent-crime-rate/

Feelings are fine. But facts are facts.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 1 week 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.

[–] missingstring@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 week ago

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

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