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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
I mean you have to work with the data that's available. Vagrancy and the like has gone up sure, but the things that matter most like Violent Crime can only be quantified with published police-reported numbers.
Legislating based off perception is bad governance.
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I get it and don't disagree, but we
do have up-to-date stats to work with... at least, using Calgary's own historical crime numbers as a comparison -- CPS doesn't give us the Alberta / Canada averages as a yardstick, unfortunately. (
Link)
I also understand that it isn't nearly as easily consumed in the format it's given to us -- the Federal report you linked is nice and easy to find all the information you want without hopping between
umpteen bloody PDFs -- but it's just too many years out of date to really be compelling.