Vic Toews takes credit for the latest decline in the crime rate.
Vic Toews takes credit for the latest decline in the crime rate.
Crime rate down 6% – shows
#CPC tough on crime is working. Rate is still 208% above 1962 levels, more work for our gov’t to do
Questions for further discussion: If the overall crime rate’s decline demonstrates the success of the Harper government’s approach, does the rise in the homicide rate demonstrate a failing on the part of the government? And does the general decline in the crime rate since 1991 validate the policies of previous governments?
See previously: The complicated nature of statistics, With feeling and With statistics