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applegrove

(123,680 posts) Wed Dec 20, 2017, 10:52 PM Dec 2017

More poverty means more crime. Alberta proves it. [View all]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/alberta-saw-huge-spike-in-crime-last-year-statistics-canada-1.2994380

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Researchers at Statistics Canada say this jump could stem from an increase in break-and-enters, thefts under $5,000 and motor vehicle thefts across Alberta.

But Edmonton’s top cop has a different theory. As Alberta’s energy-dependent economy continues to suffer from falling oil prices, Edmonton’s police chief drew a direct link between the sputtering oil industry and rising crime.

“Our rates are all driven by property crime, and they are significant,” Edmonton Police Chief Rod Knecht told CTV Edmonton on Wednesday.

“And I talked about it 18 months ago when we said there seems to be a correlation between the drop in the price in oil and the increase in crime in Edmonton.

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Look out America. More inequality means more crime. Windfall going to only people who work for AT&T or own stocks. GOP wants none of it to go to the poor.

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More poverty means more crime. Alberta proves it. [View all] applegrove Dec 2017 OP

The GOP here will see it as a good time to invest in more jails and deals with judges to send RKP5637 Dec 2017 #1

And the GOP will point at the crimes and say "look at them, they are just applegrove Dec 2017 #2

'Are there no prisons?.. And workhouses?.. Decrease surplus population..' appalachiablue Dec 2017 #3

Actually a lot of unemployed Albertans go home to other provinces during oil applegrove Dec 2017 #4

In that case they're quite fortunate, glad to know it. Thanks. We could appalachiablue Dec 2017 #5

Yes. We are lucky to have a mixed economy as a country. And people applegrove Dec 2017 #6

You enjoy a very sensible economy, responsible govt. and banks, healthy safety net appalachiablue Dec 2017 #7

Well we learnt about the strength of the middle class from you. And you had applegrove Dec 2017 #8

Oil prices were weak in the mid-to-late 1990s True Dough Dec 2017 #9

Don't know. I know there was massive migration at that time too. But much applegrove Dec 2017 #10

Still trying to confirm the dates of that oil bust in the mid to late 90s applegrove Dec 2017 #11

Looks like crime went down a bit in 1998-1999 in alberta. But it was going applegrove Dec 2017 #12

1998 was the lowest point True Dough Dec 2017 #13

Like i said it wasn't so much oil sands at the time. People had other places to go applegrove Dec 2017 #14

I'm starting to think the police chief True Dough Dec 2017 #15

Nelson BC has the highest marijuana use and lowest relative crime rate in the country. If you are applegrove Dec 2017 #16

Exactly. On the one hand True Dough Dec 2017 #17

People worry about change that will affect them. Hopefully the badass applegrove Dec 2017 #18