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Originally Posted by Lubicon
I know looking at one year statistics can be misleading but last night there was an officer involved shooting. It was the 8th one this year in Calgary compared to 3 last year. Alberta as a whole has seen 10 this year so that makes it 8 for Calgary, 2 for the rest of the Province. Not sure why the large jump in numbers this year and why so many more in Calgary. Of course it could just be a statistical anomaly and revert back to historical norms next year. Nevertheless interesting to observe.
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Well...in macro terms crime typically increases along with unemployment and poor economic conditions.
As times get tougher for the people on the lower end, those people get desperate. Desperate people do desperate things.
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