Some crime stats via Ted Rutland
Ted Rutland presents a twitter thread showing crime statistics about guns and crime in Montreal.
Some excerpts: overall gun crime is basically unchanged from 2018 (up only 3%) – There is more violence, but no evidence of more guns. – Half the murders in 2021 were carried out without a gun and the number of murders in 2021 was exactly the same as the average for the last 20 years.
Blork 12:37 on 2022-09-06 Permalink
That implies we’ve had guns going off almost every night since 2018 but it’s only lately that the media has been obsessively reporting it. Can that be true?
David S 13:21 on 2022-09-06 Permalink
But I believe I’ve been seeing more « shots were heard », with no victim. Those don’t seem to be considered in the stats, or am I missing something? Are reports done for these situations?
Simon 14:01 on 2022-09-06 Permalink
Blork, the police media department and the Fraternité has been encouraging the press to report on gun violence more since people started wondering why we spend so much on police services that seem to not be inclined to protect the public.
Spi 14:43 on 2022-09-06 Permalink
I really dislike his conclusion that overall gun crimes are “flat”, what people care about most is the use of a gun against a person. Sure letting off shots in an alley and at no particular individual and armed robberies are worrisome. The number of attempted murders by use of a firearm is up 52% (18 counts) if only half of those additional attempted murders had resulted in death then your homicides would have doubled.
If you add homicides and attempted murders together in order to negate the criminals failure, the victims luck and medical intervention. Then you’re looking at a 46% increase in the use of a firearm with the intent to kill (because you rarely see someone get shot with the purpose to wound them)
Ephraim 19:05 on 2022-09-06 Permalink
If the southern neighbour’s citizens would stop arming the cartels and the gangs, maybe we would have less of them here.