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Stockwell Day cites 'alarming’ rise in unreported crime to justify new prisons
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Aug 05, 2010 02:27pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Campbell Clark |
| Media | Newspaper - Toronto Globe and Mail |
| News Date | Thursday, August 5, 2010 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Although the official crime rate is going down, a senior Harper government minister says there is reason to disbelieve the statistics and spend billions of dollars on new prisons: an “alarming” increase in unreported crime.
Stockwell Day’s argument is based on a Statistics Canada survey, conducted like a large poll, which showed a slight rise in unreported crimes – though the increase was in property crimes and petty theft, not violent crimes. And the survey was conducted in 2004 – an ironic twist given that Mr. Day made his case only minutes after he maintained that the long-form census is not very reliable because it can be as much as five years out of date.
Mr. Day, the Treasury Board president, is not the first tough-on-crime Conservative politician to disbelieve the official statistics on reported crimes. Senator Pierre-Hughes Boisvenu said last month that “someone, somewhere, is manipulating the numbers.” The latest Statscan figures, released last month, show the number of crimes reported to police dropped 3 per cent last year, and was 17 per cent lower than in 1999. |
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