The majority of Canadians feel as safe or safer in their neighbourhoods than they did 10 years ago, according to the latest public issues polling from Nanos Research – but Conservative voters are a significant exception.
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.
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.
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.
Oh that’s interesting, I didn’t realize that. Thanks for the info.
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.