Day Three: September 24th, 2012
Crime
Index Rate
Toughest Area in Canada is: Quesnel, town of 9500 people, located in BC
We
think that crime statistics tell us so much, and that the figures can out way
facts but that is not the case. What we think we know about crime are based on
these statistics
The Crime Clock; divides the number of
crimes committed in a year with the number of minutes in a year
Three Questions
1) Who’s Counting?
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Who is responsible for gathering the data on crime and
creating reports
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Compile the statistics on crime
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Put the statistics to use
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Example of who counts: Police Officers
2) Who’s Counting What?
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August is the highest assault rate month in Toronto because
of the Canadian National Exhibition that “changes” the statistics. Because of
man who follow and “rub up against” women too closely for their own sexual
pleasure.
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Things are categorised and that can change how statistics are
looked at
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The “what” is number of occurrences divided by the total
population and multiplied that by a constant... usually the constant is 100,000
by convention
3) Who’s Counting Whom?
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Police officers do not have the resources to cover all areas
of their jurisdiction so they patrol areas that are more concerning than
others.
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If a crime is not observed or reported to the police than it
is not considered a statistic because it is not known
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Statistics are made from the observed areas
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Wondering why cases are missed AND what cases are missed
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Ethnicity – Statistics Canada wanted to compile statistics on
ethnicity, Ottawa and Toronto said no immediately. SC wanted this to be
separate because some crimes are more committed by certain ethnic groups, it is
not supposed to be negative, its intended to help and be positive. Especially
in the case of Asian people being involved in gang activities across borders or
Italian people involved in criminal activities (mob). Separating these
statistics is extremely negative and could cause much damage
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Gender Based – is also a concern when it comes to separating
these statistics. Women are differentially involved in certain types of
criminal acts. Usually involved in crimes that are “lesser” then others. However; the statistics are changing
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Fragile statistics, cannot place a lot of confidence because
it does not place an accurate depictions of crime rate: use data from other
non-official agencies (ex. Insurance companies), security companies, using
peoples personal accounts, victimisation surveys,
There
is a difference from WHAT crimes a male will report vs. what crime a women will
report
Males
under the age of 25 are the most likely victims because they are more likely to
put themselves into situations where risks could happen
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Women stay away from these situations
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Elderly stay away from these situations
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Kids may not have the freedom to even get into or see these
situations
Video:
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Saskatoon
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January 28, 2000
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Police pick up a native man, for no reason, and dropped him
off in the middle of nowhere on a blizzard night and they drove away. Another
boy who was drinking got picked up again, he didn’t survive.
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One Officer started an investigation on these situations,
because the native man did not report it because the native man was afraid
people wouldn’t believe him and his story. After a couple days, another man had
been found dead, and frozen.
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Native people came together in a march to fight against what
was happening to these native man
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RCMP were called in to create a full investigation to find
truth
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Change needs to be made, if police officers especially
younger ones, have racism towards anyone that needs to be changed
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Two police officers were charged and fired
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The town was split, no one was happy, people argued over
which was right and which was wrong
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Continues to discuss how aboriginal people are treated
differently than everyone else...
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