crime statistics

Police today are solving fewer homicides than they did in the 1960s

Too much joyriding in the ‘Peg

Murder rate in this bedroom community is 365 per cent above the national average

Dan Gardner’s Second Law of Crime Statistics holds that critics of the justice system treat rising crime numbers as “a perfectly accurate reflection of the frightening reality,” but falling crime numbers as “so transparently flawed that only fools, Liberals and criminologists would believe them.” Peter Worthington evinces a more complex tendency: he considers low or falling crime numbers accurate when they suit his argument, and wholly inadequate when they don’t.

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