Goldstein: Stats are a crime
Posted on 31 July 2008 by Jack
Today let’s take a break from the BS we’re being fed about global warming to examine the BS we’re being fed about crime statistics.
Specifically, about how “low” they are today compared to the past, how anyone who believes otherwise is paranoid and how the best way to make the crime rate even lower is to go even softer on criminals than we already are.
First, let’s examine what the crime rate actually is compared to years ago, as opposed to what we’ve been told it is.
Here are some figures you probably didn’t see widely quoted in the media earlier this month when Statistics Canada released its 2007 data on falling Canadian crime rates.
- First, violent crime is up 320% since 1962, when modern records first started being kept.
- Second, property crime, which many victims don’t even bother to report anymore, is nonetheless up 75%.
- Third, the overall crime rate is up 152%.
What, you say? You’ve been told, ad nauseam, by soft-on-crime politicians, media, criminal lawyers and prisoners’ rights groups that crime has been going down for years?
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July 31st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
PMSH made a stupid blunder when he decided to flip flop and jump on the GW bandwagon when he knew better. If he’d stuck with his convictions on this one issue, he’d be looking pretty darn wise as more and more evidence is revealed supporting his original stance.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
BTDT - I beg to differ - PMSH did not ‘blunder’, he promised to take action on pollution many years ago. The Conservative plan to reduce pollution is what they call the Climate Change thingie. The people were ‘crying’ for climate ‘action’. I heard that line from Conservatives - not just left wingers! So the ‘crying of the people’ demmed ‘action’, we have ‘action’ but not the kind of action the selfish ‘Birkenstock with wool ankle-socks’ crowd like - EVERYONE is paying for the clean-up.
McSquinty types are not getting big bucks from productive citizens (as they would have, had Canada bought into the buying of Carbon Credits from China - Unca Mo Boshevick Global equal poverty elitists - Kyotee plan - Liberano/Dipper Plan) to support their ‘entitled’ lifestyles and they don’t like that! The ‘entitled’ did not plan to be paying when they were squawking. Heh.
Canada’s Prime Minister has a big nation to govern - the GW hype was revved up from a annoying squawk to a high pitched whine when the PMSH took over - he said he would take action before the election and he has - he has focused on ‘clean-up’ and done a good job, IMO. If he had not addressed the ‘crys’ (howls) of the innocent (silly) people, he might look wise but he would not be Prime Minister of Canada. We would be much poorer - in every aspect of our lives, IMO.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Well,well,well,isn’t that interesting how violent crime has TRIPLED in Canada since we switched our immigration policy over from a perfect system in the early 1960’s to what I call a system of absolute criminal negligence.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:11 am
Actually, Mr G, a good portion of the crime is coming from the natives who also had their “place” in your perfect 1960’s. The Jamaicans that were already here were all but barred from getting meaningful legal work and even the Italisns had a rough go at it. Cost of living has risen dramatically while social services in post-Trudeau Canada have dropped. Now Canada gets to reap to benefits of jilting all these groups so that the O’Dennells and McMillans could enjoy life in an unnaturally stable economy. Enjoy your harvest.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:31 am
Jema 54. Do you forget when early on after becoming PM the Conservatives labelled ‘man-made’ global warming to be a hoax. They stated their clear intention to not join the Gore/Suzuki/Liberal/NDP/BLOC alarmist stampede to save the planet from ourselves? That’s not what they are saying now is it? They’d be looking pretty darn wise today on this issue, and more so as each day passes and more and more ‘legitimate’ climatologists back them up. On this singular issue they effectively snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. They flip flopped.
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
BTDT - I don’t listen to Beard because I grew up with parents who ‘allowed’ us to make decisions and suffer the consequences. The howls of Canadians DEMANDED ‘action’ (the howls were the majority) so instead of trying to reason with a bunch of out of control howlers the PM laid the environment on thick BUT he did not go for the cash transfer kyotee thingie.
I am an environmentalist, myself. I howled when the Dippers in B.C. allowed their lumber Dipper supporting companies to clear cut (we see the results now with the mudslides on highways, I howled when the Dipper/Puffin governments of the time allowed the pine beetle to get out of control, I howled when sour gas in Alta produced birth abnormalities in animals and children, I howled wnrn Monsanto took over wheat production, I howled when Puffin environment minister David Anderson ( not to be confused with the handsome M.P. from Cypress Hills, Sask.) allowed raw sewage from Victoria to be pumped into the ocean (they still do that and I am still howling about it; St Johns NB apparently has built a plant but that city had the same arrangement), I howled when the Yukon allowed a forest fire to burn uncontrolled in 2004/2005 for DAYS, destroying much of the beautiful Klondike Valley. I LIKE the environment clean up and I admire the way PMSH and big mouth Baird are getting the job done. As my Dad always said “there is more than one way to skin a cat (meaning the machine , not the animal).