So what’s the evidence for policy driven crime rates? It appears violent crimes are level and other crimes are down at decades low? Am I missing something?
The report by the actual department responsible for it. They’re definitely not level nor down, other than COVID blips which affect all stats everywhere for almost everything… Stats can often underreports:
That is some of the most tortured data I’ve ever seen. It cuts off at a multi decade low. For reference the data you linked doesn’t disagree, its just clipped
So what’s the evidence for policy driven crime rates? It appears violent crimes are level and other crimes are down at decades low? Am I missing something?
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/210727/cg-a002-eng.htm
The report by the actual department responsible for it. They’re definitely not level nor down, other than COVID blips which affect all stats everywhere for almost everything… Stats can often underreports:
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/ccrso-2022/ccrso-2022-en.pdf#page12
Neat summary and comparison of the trend:
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/crime-rates-canada-growing-faster-united-states#%3A~%3Atext=In+Canada%2C+from+2014+to%2Cincrease+of+49+per+cent.
That is some of the most tortured data I’ve ever seen. It cuts off at a multi decade low. For reference the data you linked doesn’t disagree, its just clipped