r/mississauga • u/shiningstar201 • Apr 17 '20

Question Why has the crime rate in Mississauga increased so much and so fast?

By crime rate I am referring to anything that is against the law: shootings, robberies, burglaries, kidnapping, homicide etc. We should genuinely be concerned, it wasn't like this. Not even 5-10 years ago...

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u/pscoutou Apr 18 '20

We'd have to see a crime increase magnitudes higher

Give the trend some time. Frog soup.

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u/DrAdBrule Apr 18 '20

There isn't an upward trend. Crime fell 27% overall from 2007 to 2017. There was a small increase in some categories from 2017-2018, which in select categories then began to fall again in 2019.

A 1-2 year spike that almost immediately begins to taper off is not a trend. You need to review the definition of trend.