What crime stats don’t tell you
On Sunday the Ottawa Citizen and Calgary Herald both ran an Op Ed by MLI Managing Editor John Robson on the importance of our study “Why Canadian Crime Statistics Don’t Add Up”. It’s really nice to see so much attention to this report setting the record straight on a key policy issue where debate was long dominated by highly publicized but profoundly inadequate numbers.
Related posts:
- The Crime Stats Debate – The Real Numbers The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today released a Commentary, Myths and Urban Legends concerning Crime in...
- The Crime Stats Debate – Reworking the Numbers May 13, 2011 – Scott Newark’s analysis of the StatsCan 2009 police-reported crime statistics has sparked...
- Newark crime stats study: “Honest and smart” is better than “tough” Scott Newark’s lifetime of experience in the Canadian policing and justice systems has led to...
- Crime stats in the Sun A column by Lorrie Goldstein for the Sun/QMI chain (appearing in the Ottawa Sun, Toronto...
- MLI’s study on crime statistics continues to make waves MLI’s recent publication, Why Canadian crime statistics don’t add up: Not the whole truth, continues...
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