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Originally Posted by 68style
Do you honestly think crime has actually gone up tho? Or do you just feed off media campaigns?
Cuz I will tell you from my experience in the past working FOR the police, the ebb and flow of things was "What's the hot topic right now for me as a politician... crime? Property crime? Murder? Car theft? Drugs?" and then the politician turns around and applies pressure on the RCMP/City Police (depending which one) and asks them to allocate more officers and monies to that particular issue so they can show a result. Rinse and repeat with another hot button issue a few months later. This is literally the entire reason Dougie Doug wants his own police force in Surrey -- it's all about control, he can't press the mounties as much as he can his own force.
So I get that visibly people might think crime is going up, there's a hell of a lot more media coverage now on multiple platforms than there ever was before, but it's just the way it's being presented. I think it's been a steady stream of the same shit and %ages if you look at the data itself for decades... if anything it may have gone down.
Keep in mind seeing more homeless people =/= higher crime... it just means there's more homeless people.
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You're partly right and wrong at the same time. The VPD came out recently and said something similar. While it's true with the internet and the media, we hear more about crimes and drug use, so anecdotally it "feels" like there's more crime. There's a mix of that, but violent crimes
have gone up, so there are stats to back that part up.
It's that combined with the more in-your-face levels of poverty which I think it's making people truly feel things have been digressing as of late.