Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Stockwell Day is going to crack down on crime in Montreal! What crime? We'll come up with something

  Based on 2001 numbers, but it's still pretty indicative that cracking down on crime in Canada is a ridiculous initiative considering the circumstances. In fact a lot of these numbers came during the heat of the biker war, so you know that crime is even lower than it was.
   This map shows that east Verdun is as close to a war zone as it gets here. Unlike cities in Western Canada where crime is concentrated in the downtown area, we gets ours in the lower city. I guess if you subtract Alex Hilton's misdeeds it's not such a bad area.
Montreal's crime rate has been falling for a long time.
You can see that kids of 18 are big time criminals, they really should just lock them up as a form of prevention.

5 comments:

  1. Your data shows only property and violent crimes; what about drug crimes, white crime, and as you mentioned earlier in the blog crimes such as prostitution..... surely the demographics would look quite different.

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  2. ie public order crimes

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  3. Four of five crimes are property crimes.

    Most assaults happen within half a km (hello noisy neighbour) but theft is usually done a little further. I don't know if the Verdun stuff shows the victims' or the perps' turf.

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  4. Anonymous9:27 am

    Not a comment about the article but I did want to say I found this
    http://spotcrime.com/qc/montreal
    which shows recent crimes that have made the news and where they are in the city.

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  5. Stock is President of the Treasury Board and Minister Responsible for the Pacific Rim...his Chief of Staff is Montreal lawyer and former Conservative candidate in Mount-Royal, Neil Drabkin, known from his CF Cable TV series and CIQC AM 600 radio show.

    Rob Nicholson is Justice Minister.

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