tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post1901999502989349942..comments2024-03-28T00:54:34.206-04:00Comments on BigCityLib Strikes Back: The Macdonald Laurier Institute On Canadian Crimebigcitylibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05081538803991095825noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-42744992179270219422011-08-01T12:03:23.601-04:002011-08-01T12:03:23.601-04:00I thought is Mcdonald food restaurant,lol by the w...I thought is Mcdonald food restaurant,lol by the way If you look something about your husband? <a href="http://www.mensusa.com/" rel="nofollow"><b>Tuxedos</b></a> is the best gift for him.Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948115149015814935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-88648988021929974722011-02-10T14:46:00.830-05:002011-02-10T14:46:00.830-05:00It's a hack piece.
I read it too. There is an...It's a hack piece.<br /><br />I read it too. There is an inherent dishonesty in the 'study' -- it presents many issues as unexplained (he loves the word 'inexplicable') by Stats Can, when in fact they are explained elsewhere. It's intellectual dishonesty, or at least incompetence, to not consider all reasonably available materials. <br /><br />This guy would look out his window at night, and conclude there was no sun.<br /><br />The publication he is criticizing is not supposed to be the be all and end all of crime stats. It's just an addendum. One could be excused for thinking that this is all he's ever read on the topic.<br /><br />And though he is critical of crime stats these days, he seems uncritical of violent crime stats he compares against from the 1960s, which we know are severely under-representative of violence in society at that time. He even throws in a gratuitous "Shouldn't we be investigating why the 60s were better?". I mean really. Sexual assaults, still under-reported and not taken seriously enough, were barely acknowledged back then, as were domestic assaults.<br /><br />Political fluff, written to get Flaherty et al pimping the private sector for more funding for the institute.Mark Richard Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16331995640397477486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-39269856389098248212011-02-10T10:17:17.507-05:002011-02-10T10:17:17.507-05:00Scott Newark used to be a crown prosecutor in Albe...Scott Newark used to be a crown prosecutor in Alberta. He has an ideological bent that cannot be discounted when he publishes something like this. StatsCan, on the other hand, is objective.<br /><br />As for the issue of including attempted murder in the homicide statistics - this is a stupid argument. StatsCan keeps statistics of reported and charged crime, not convicted crime. If we start including attempted murder that simply allows the police to artificially increase the statistic (thereby giving them ammunition to argue for more funding) because they can simply charge someone with attempted murder instead of aggravated assault and then claim homicides are going up.<br /><br />Any criminal lawyer will tell you that attempted murder is extremely difficult to prove. Any criminal lawyer will also tell you that the police are often guilty of over charging. I once worked with a kid who was charged with 15 counts of attempted theft of motor vehicles, all of which were reduced to a single ticket once the lawyers looked at the case. A couple years ago in Edmonton 4 boys were charged with murdering a guy on a bus. The headlines were screaming for their heads. Yet, once all the facts were out it was apparent those 4 boys were defending one of their friends from an unlawful assault by the deceased (he was choking him). They pushed the guy who fell and hit his head. It was a fluke accident and all charges were dropped. Those 4 homicide charges still go down in StatsCan as 4 homicide charges, notwithstanding the fact they were not substantiated by any facts.Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08112657859825911939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-4468053186308331712011-02-10T09:23:20.056-05:002011-02-10T09:23:20.056-05:00Thx. Should work now.Thx. Should work now.bigcitylibhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05081538803991095825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-73474269463651881812011-02-10T09:12:49.444-05:002011-02-10T09:12:49.444-05:00Your last link gets me a Page Not Found error at t...Your last link gets me a Page Not Found error at the <i>Montreal Gazette</i>.poggehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15230532270911414866noreply@blogger.com