Stockwell Day and the Crime Rate
A few thoughts:
1) This video is funny. It’s fun to make fun of our Conservatives who favour ideology over data. And Stockwell Day is a prime target.
2) Yes, crime rates per 1000 are higher than they were in the 60s. You can see it in the Corrections Canada article I link in #5.
3) Yes, there are unreported crime statistics. They compare reported crimes with surveys asking people if they have been the victim of a crime (victimization stats).
4) The Conservative attempts to justify their ‘tough on crime’ approach, and to take credit for a decline in crime that has been happening for over a decade, are painful yet hard to resist watching. By raising the mandatory sentences and changing the credit system for time already served they will increase the prison population significantly and thus require that $9b in new prisons and management.
5) This is an interesting article about the effect of the Baby Boom on the prison population and crime rate. The general idea is that when you have a massive population surge of young people you are going to see more crime. As people age, they are less likely to commit crime. However, they are increasingly paranoid and ready to believe that the world is a more dangerous place. Even if it isn’t. As an ideological government, it makes sense, therefore, not to tell the voting population the truth, but to tell them what they already believe.
6) As always, discussions on crime statistics remind me of Freakonomics
August 5th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Stockwell Day is a complete idiot. You are so right, the conservatives love to make-up facts that cater to the scared and paranoid. Works like a charm. They are not politicians, they are self-serving ideologists who will stop @ nothing to ram there ideals down everyone elses throats. It’s all about control and fear. The conservatives are absorbed in their own fear. So they like to think that everyone else is scared too. Well, we are not.
August 7th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Thank you Vanessa for posting this as it is incredibly important
You like me seem to see the real implications
I was going to give a long post but since I decided that I came across this which says it much better (see below)
But suffice to say that when jet ski stockwell talks about unreported crime he really means “”"cannabis crimes”"”"
The green party is really missing the boat as usual and I am just about through with their blatant stupidity and irrelevance
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2010/08/shedding-light-on-day-unreported-crimes-cannabis-offenses.html#more
We would have won seats last time if elley may had not turned into a coward and broken her word to my thousands of helpers across canada
No one will help her or the party again and we want a new leader …A REAL LEADER !!
Stay tuned for that one
Cheers
September 14th, 2010 at 3:28 am
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