11-24-2017, 05:40 PM
(11-24-2017, 04:27 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote:(11-24-2017, 03:11 PM)Coke6pk Wrote: My comment meant nothing of the crime rate. (I don't subscribe to the "world is falling" that the 6:00 news is force feeding society.)
Years ago construction workers on skyscrapers didn't wear harnesses. Car's didn't have seat belts. Scientists didn't wear safety goggles. Police didn't wear ballistic vests. Bar/Restaurant workers suffered in a smoke filled environment.
Coke
Reported crime rate is falling. Violent and more complicated crimes are on the rise, all of which take up more resources. In addition, violence related to mental health is way up. Ask anyone who works in the industry.
A lot of people don't report crime anymore, For instance if someone went into a vehicle over night and stole sun glasses and change and so on, people would report it. When the police officer attended, they would speak to the neighbours and find out there vehicle was broken into and they were a victim too. That would generate further occurrences. Now, even if reported to the police, the police often attend these types of calls anymore due to limited resources, the victim gets frustrated, they don't bother filing a report, we don't hear about the other victims, and the crimes go unreported. Multiply that by so many other instances, and voilla, you have crime statistics indicative of being lower when they are actually not.
I can believe that petty crime is higher compared to the reported rate than it once was, but I find it pretty hard to believe that we’re getting more unreported violent crime now than previously. If anything, a wider range of activity is considered worthy of being taken seriously, not just as something that happens. What happens if a high school kid punches a classmate now? At one time, as far as I can tell, that was just “boys being boys”. Similarly for lesser sexual assault — I don’t think rapists attacking people in the park were ever considered not worthy of pursuit — but all sorts of day-to-day events that were once just part of the scene for women, in particular, are more and more considered to be unacceptable.