Canada's crime index rises for 1st time in 12 years, lifted by spike in Alberta

Canada's "Tough on Crime" plan in action.

This will happen when a Liberal government is in charge.

-J.

But hey, I'm sure it's the Liberal's fault . . . somehow.

Yeah I'm sure that has something to do with it. Not.

tanking economy, it seems their is a correlation between Alberta's now, have not status and our massive spike in violent crime rates. Thanks Obama!

1) ongoing gang war
2) massive epidemic of fentanyl addiction, leading to all sorts of hijinks by desperate addicts
3) lots of young bucks suddenly and badly unemployed (go figure, there was a social price to be paid for the oil collapse the ROC was enjoying and laughing at so much)
4) Calgary is one of the most young cities in the country demographically so there's lots and lots and lots of teenagers who are suffering along with their unemployed parents, plus a lot of their usual summer jobs are now occupied by adults who were laid off from the oil biz

In terms of the gang war the Calgary city council is playing it's usual game. The police generally do quite well in busting gangs. After it's done the council tries to push a budget cut for the anti-gang squad. The cops end up backing off and in the resulting vacuum new gang activity begins. So the cops have to go begging for a budget increase. Council grants it, cops bust more gangs, crime goes down, council justifies the drop in crime to cut the budget again, ad nauseaum. One hell of a circle jerk that never ends in city hall.

All the riff raff that came west from Ontario, during the oil boom, that now finds itself unemployed. Send them home and things will improve. Keep the newfs, as they at least have a sense of humour.

One of the dopey columnists in the SUN yesterday was actually lamenting that we didn't have a civic leader with the "courage" to call them all creeps & bums again the way Ralph Klein once did. Apparently taking the nuanced view that the crime was being rooted in the economic collapse and the fentanyl epidemic is only something that some pussy-wimp libbos would do.

That's the problem in a nutshell. Either dumb-ass "conservatism" of that sort or being a slavish follower of Sunnyways McSelfie, with not much grey area in between the two anymore. This is why I've dropped out almost entirely from the spectrum because all this kind of thing does now is give me a headache.

I'm sure the crime rates will drop when the 10,000 to 25,000 Syrians get imported to Canada.

Just to clarify, if you actually read the report, it goes out of it's way to say that young (youth) crime rates are at an all time low. Not sure how that factors into your comments of how Calgary is full of 'young' people and its relation to crime. Which clearly, seems to be a non factor, at least according the report.

Unless it involves assault or murder, youth crime's been downgraded in importance so much that it's barely reported any more. As for the demographic part Alberta became one of the "youngest" parts of the country for quite awhile now. Lots of people in their twenties and thirties came here, even prior to the boom, back in 1995-2000 and lots of them had lots of babies who are teenagers now. Schools are full to the point of bursting, in the cities anyway, which led to the problem of not enough suburban schools being built in the areas where these young families had bought their homes. Go to the Calgary police stats page and the outer ring areas have statistically more of the type of annoyance crime that teenagers usually commit than the inner area or old suburbs do because families in those older areas tend to be more mature with grown-up kids and also because those homes are generally too expensive for the young families to purchase.

C'mon the Ontarians have just as big a sense of humour, hell they elected Kathleen Wynne didn't they.

They thought they were getting free popcorn for every family.

I'm sure that only Liberals are committing those crimes.