Statistics Canada says the country's homicide rate fell last year to 1.44 victims for every 100,000 people, its lowest level since 1966.
The agency says the 2013 rate was eight per cent lower than in 2012.
It says police reported 505 homicides in 2013, down 38 from the previous year.
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Captain James P. DeCOSTE, CD, 18 Sep 1993
Unreported crime is way up. Don't ask me how I know this.
Somehow I would question how many murders go unreported.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
All this proves is that our politics of fear are working!
But wait, if you're telling us that politics of fear are working, that would actually make us feel safer and reduce our level of fear; which undermines those politics of fear and puts us at even greater risk from those who want to break into our homes and murder us all in our sleep. No, to maintain our powerful culture of fear, we must continue to believe that fear only makes us weaker.
And if someone wanted to infiltrate our society and discover our weaknesses, wouldn't the collection of 'homicide statistics' be the perfect cover? And phoning us, knocking on our doors to ask us questions? How long until they go from information-gathering mode to operational mode? It's all starting to make sense, and we'd be justified to be terrified any time anyone knocks on our doors.
Opposition critics are scratching their heads over Stockwell Day's claim that Canada needs more prisons in part because many crimes go unreported.
Day, president of the Treasury Board, was asked Tuesday why the Conservative government intends to spend billions of dollars on expanding prisons at a time of falling crime.
“People simply aren't reporting the same way they used to,” he responded. “I'm saying one statistic of many that concerns us is the amount of crimes that go unreported. Those numbers are alarming and it shows that we can't take a liberal view to crime.”
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That's only because there are more guns, according to the NRA and Republicans.
Most people would agree that that statement is not even close to factually correct. But at the same time, they are fine with statements that claim less “gun control” would increase crime and murder rates and the media, political parties/ politicians making outright false statements about legislation.
You'd think that people would want accountability from both side of the table.
Canada, Not Going to Hell in a Handbasket
