 Homicide rate down 8 per cent to lowest since 1966 | CTV NewsLaw & Order | 206686 hits | Dec 01 8:41 am | Posted by: DrCaleb  Police-reported homicides hit a historic low last year, as Canada’s murder rate fell by eight per cent to its lowest level since 1966.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 2 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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But...but...but...THE HIDDEN HOMICIDES...
Thought crimes?
Quick, let's bring back the death penalty and build more prisons.
Sentencing got tougher since then and we did build more prisons, and homicides when down.
Not saying that is not circumstantial but it is true sentencing did get tougher since then and more prisons were built. Its kind of like saying crime is down so we don't need as many cops. Maybe having as many as we do is what brought / kept crime down?
On an aside I'd love to see the number broken down by city. I have a suspicion for Winnipeg and Regina it would actually show an increase in homicide since the 60s
Quick, let's bring back the death penalty and build more prisons.
Sentencing got tougher since then and we did build more prisons, and homicides when down.
Really? Sentencing got tougher since the 60's?
Of course we built more prisons - our population almost doubled.
Less people in the high risk age group may mean homicides are going down because criminals are getting older and it's physically one hell of alot harder to kill someone in your 70's than when you were in your 30's.
Don't forget to loosen the gun laws too!
And why not? With the homicide rates down it appears that even your criminals are better behaved these days.
Police reported 505 homicides in 2013. Now that’s certainly 505 too many, but it’s the lowest homicide rate since 1966, at 1.44 victims per 100,000 people.
Hold your applause, though. Good for some, cold comfort for others.
Peel back the curtain and the narrative isn't all roses.
For starters, that’s the average. Prince Edward Island’s rate is 0.69. However, in Nunavut it’s an unacceptably high 11.24.
When it comes to types of homicides, fatal stabbings are up and account for 40% of all homicides.
Firearm-related homicides are down, and the majority of them involve handguns. So much for all the hand-wringing over losing the useless long-gun registry!
Also, the rate of homicide by stranger is the lowest in 40 years. Good news when you're out and about.
But the other side of the coin is that people living in vulnerable situations still face a potentially dangerous personal life.
Nine in 10 solved homicides from last year were actually committed by people who knew the victims.
This just underscores the information revealed by an RCMP report released this May on more than 1,000 murdered aboriginal women.
Only 8% of them were killed by strangers and 89% of them were killed by men.
Let’s not forget all of this data is about police-reported crimes, and it’s pretty hard for a homicide to go unreported.
That’s not true for other serious crimes that can ruin a person’s life, such as sexual assault.
Following the Jian Ghomeshi allegations many people have come forward to talk about their experiences with sexual assault – many of them not reported.
The #BeenRapedNeverReported conversation went viral on social media. We encourage everyone who’s been the victim of an assault to report it to the police and seek justice. But it’s not always that easy. So the stats never tell the true story.
It’s great news that homicides are down. Yet there’s clearly much work to be done.
Women need to feel safe in their communities and workplaces. Aboriginal communities need economic and social stability. And handgun crime is still a major problem.
It's just as easy to say that violence has been declining significantly since leaded fuel, with exposure to lead being well known as causing damage to the areas of the human brain that control violent and anti-social tendencies, was banned as it is to give credit to any other phenomenon. Yes, the rampage of violence as depicted in bad Hollywood film and TV productions never materialized. But, no, there's still a lot of problems out there that aren't easily fixed (if they're even fixable at all).
Usual misleading nonsense. Let's, like, get rid of the prisons because, like, people are getting awesomer.
Police reported 505 homicides in 2013. Now that’s certainly 505 too many, but it’s the lowest homicide rate since 1966, at 1.44 victims per 100,000 people.
Hold your applause, though. Good for some, cold comfort for others.
Peel back the curtain and the narrative isn't all roses.
For starters, that’s the average. Prince Edward Island’s rate is 0.69. However, in Nunavut it’s an unacceptably high 11.24.
When it comes to types of homicides, fatal stabbings are up and account for 40% of all homicides.
Firearm-related homicides are down, and the majority of them involve handguns. So much for all the hand-wringing over losing the useless long-gun registry!
Also, the rate of homicide by stranger is the lowest in 40 years. Good news when you're out and about.
But the other side of the coin is that people living in vulnerable situations still face a potentially dangerous personal life.
Nine in 10 solved homicides from last year were actually committed by people who knew the victims.
This just underscores the information revealed by an RCMP report released this May on more than 1,000 murdered aboriginal women.
Only 8% of them were killed by strangers and 89% of them were killed by men.
Let’s not forget all of this data is about police-reported crimes, and it’s pretty hard for a homicide to go unreported.
That’s not true for other serious crimes that can ruin a person’s life, such as sexual assault.
Following the Jian Ghomeshi allegations many people have come forward to talk about their experiences with sexual assault – many of them not reported.
The #BeenRapedNeverReported conversation went viral on social media. We encourage everyone who’s been the victim of an assault to report it to the police and seek justice. But it’s not always that easy. So the stats never tell the true story.
It’s great news that homicides are down. Yet there’s clearly much work to be done.
Women need to feel safe in their communities and workplaces. Aboriginal communities need economic and social stability. And handgun crime is still a major problem.
It's just as easy to say that violence has been declining significantly since leaded fuel, with exposure to lead being well known as causing damage to the areas of the human brain that control violent and anti-social tendencies, was banned as it is to give credit to any other phenomenon. Yes, the rampage of violence as depicted in bad Hollywood film and TV productions never materialized. But, no, there's still a lot of problems out there that aren't easily fixed (if they're even fixable at all).
Nope, your article is the usual righty nonsense. The article basically says "but but but it's not 0%!"
- So what if the rate is not universally down by the same rate everywhere? It's still down!
- The fact that a greater proportion of homicides are now by knife instead of gun is a good news story, not a bad news story.
- The fact that "the majority" of homicides are by handgun vs long gun doesn't necessarily mean that the long-gun regsitry is useless. It seems about 1/3 gun homicides were still by long-gun overall, and in rural areas it seems there is still more long-gun crime than handgun crime.
- Fewer people are killed by strangers, again this is GOOD NEWS (and the spectre of a random crazed killer is what keeps righty up at night). The flip side of that is obviously that people who are killed are more likely to be killed by people that they know. Again this is not a "counterpoint" to the fact that crime is down and is actually a sign of progress.
- Some crimes go unreported: what is the right actually proposing here? You can't build jails and impose tougher sentences for crimes that are never reported in the first place, since by definition there is nobody to charge and convict and there is no way to measure unreported crime anyway.
The above article is just a desparate ateempt by the right-wing fear-mongers to keep their politics of fear alive.
Where Criminals go to play.
http://www.macleans.ca/worst-cities/
Here's a cool graph showing the worst places for each crime category. It's got everything from marijuana possession, New Westminster to Homicide, Red Deer.
Where Criminals go to play.
http://www.macleans.ca/worst-cities/
Civilization in Alberta stops where the 780 area code begins unfortunately.