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Originally Posted by chemgear
People and businesses aren't bothering to report crimes anymore when everybody knows it won't amount to anything. If people committing crimes even happen to be caught everybody knows they'll just quickly be released.
Heck, that tourist that got punched in the head and stomped repeatedly just the other day in Vancouver was attacked by a guy who was released after ambushing 4 different people across two years - he only got 1 day of jail for the multiple assaults. He'll be back for more I'm sure. Maybe something happens to you if you hack off a hand or somebody's head. Otherwise you'll be out in short order.
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I'm sure you have solid evidence demonstrating a trend of a reduction in the rate of crime reporting? Because the evidence I've seen shows that crime reporting rates are pretty flat. And where it does change, it tends to correlate with the number of police officers (cities with reductions in officer levels see reduced reporting rates and cities with increases in officers see higher rates). Vancouver has beefed up its police force in recent years, so that would suggest that reporting rates would not have declined.
And of course, you can look at crimes that virtually never go unreported, like culpable homicide, and see the significant decline over the decades. Here's the murder rate per 100K Vancouver residents over the last 40 years:
1984-1993: 6.07
1994-2003: 4.26
2004-2013: 2.78
2014-2023: 2.23
Given that the decline in the murder rate correlates with the decline in reported violent crime, that would suggest that it's not an artifact of reporting rates.