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I'm all for your suggestions... but this statement is wrong... The crime rate in the USA and Canada has dropped slowly but surely every year since 1994.
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crime rates are tricky things. what state wants to publicise the fact they arent doing as well as they should be? part of the problem has to do with classification of crimes. there is a disturbing trend of late to officially write rapes as "sexual assault" when this happens, rape statistics get thrown off, as do class 1 felony stats. secondly, it is a very interesting twist of the numbers that gets reported. although the proportion of crimes has gone down (say, only 3.5% of people commiting crimes instead of 4%), the simple numbers tell a different story. 3.5% of 3,000,000 people is still more than 4% of 2,500,000 people (10,500 as opposed to 10,000, respectively).
with that in mind, i was not clear in my statement. you are correct; crime RATES have fallen, but number of crimes are still rising. our population growth is the confounding variable