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Unreported Crime Rate is Alarming? So’s Stockwell Day.
I watched CPAC’s feed this morning of a news conference given by Stockwell Day and Denis Lebel. Since I don’t speak French and that is all Lebel spoke in, I can’t comment on anything he said. In some ways, I came away from watching that feed wishing Day spoke anything but English and was in anyone’s government but the government of Canada.
When asked to comment on the government’s tough on crime agenda and the associated costs in among his convoluted response was a reference to first of all comparing current crime statistics to the crime rate back in the 60′s, some fourty years ago. Then he confounded just about everyone by referring to the statistic on unreported crime and how alarming they are.
Crime rates from 40 years ago? Like let’s get real, comparing rates from 10 years ago or even 20 years ago carries some weight but 40? Canada is never going to reach that Shangri-La of a crime rate that matches or is below 40 years ago. Too much has changed in the makeup of this country.
Many of those crimes have changed over that time period. Fourty years ago, a man could rape (and it was called rape then) his wife and not be charged with any criminal offense. Most of the time, that same man could beat his wife and not be charged.
Today there are more criminal offenses on the books for people to be charged with, so the rate is naturally going to be higher than fourty years ago. So why did he make that reference? Because more current statistics show that the crime rate is actually dropping in this country while the Conservative government is preparing to jail even more people as they copy the failed Republican policy from the US.
What’s the definition of insanity… oh yeah.. doing the same thing over again and again while looking for a different result.
The 40 year reference was overshadowed by the seemingly bizarre reference to the ‘rate of unreported crime’ — as David Akin said:
Later Mr Akin sent this tweet out: “My question of the day: How does one go about locking people up for crimes that no one has reported? http://bit.ly/awWzxN #Precrime” Yes, he may have something there. The Cons are going to break new ground with the criminal justice system, they are going to get those criminals before they can hurt people.
So, let’s see, the government is preparing to send more people to jail due to a so called alarming increase in unreported crime. Does that mean that not reporting a crime could become a crime?
Well assured dear reader, the government isn’t going to do that because they don’t believe in forcing people into providing information they don’t want to give, no matter how much benefit reliable information could be to the country.
See, they are doing away with the mandatory census long form because of the threat of those not wanting to do it going to jail. No one ever has gone to jail for this but let’s not let facts get in the way. So, instead of removing the threat of jail from the mandatory aspect of the long form, the government should just do away with it.
If you decide you don’t want to be forced into giving the information asked for on the still mandatory short form, the threat of jail remains. Let’s see if I get this, it’s much better to threaten to jail me for not giving a bit of information than it is to jail me for refusing to provide a lot of information? Ah right, the precrime approach, jail me quick before I do something really bad.
Day you are one scary dude. What’s scarier, he speaks on behalf of our government.
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