Regina Police have announced that they have cracked a longstanding case of serial arson — in the past several months, over 150 fires (most in garbage bins) have been set in north central Regina. (via local radio – I’ll provide a link if one becomes available)
Except – the case wasn’t exactly “cracked” . The police… uh…. knew all along who was responsible. They just couldn’t do anything about it until the suspects outgrew their judicial immunity under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. In other words, authorities could do little more than run around putting out fires, until the arsonists turned 12.
Typical of our Trudeapian justice system, check out this chart from a government of Canada website.
The figures produce a total of 74%. There are no statistics provided on violent crime.
If these figures are correct, and the total (all) offences are 106665, then the difference should be violent crimes – a total of 27880 violent crimes!
This boggles the mind.
major assaults, sexual assault, arson, weapons offenses… I suspect there are very few “minor” crimes left in the unreported percentage.
You need an 11 year old Paul Kersey to take care of things.
This is a little late but FYI: violent crime stats are covered in Table 5 of the gc web page. For 1998/99 the number is 22,284 or 21% – which would make it the single largest statistic. It’s certainly odd that this was ommitted from Table 1.