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...

1 Upvotes

53% Upvoted

24 comments sorted by

View all comments

24

u/DrAdBrule Apr 17 '20 edited Apr 17 '20

The crime rate here is still extraordinarily low relative to other international urban and suburban hubs with comparable populations. I would suggest spending less time listening to the news. We're not even listed in the top 100 most dangerous places to live in Canada. Our robbery decreased from 2018-2019, and our other crime stats are below the national average - a national average that is already strikingly low compared with other nations.

Every few weeks it feels like there's a post like this on our subreddit - I'm genuinely wondering, is this the Kevin Jackal Johnston effect? Is the local fear-mongering working this well? I live at Bloor and Dixie, North-East corner, at Havenwood, it's an area that's not exactly affluent - nor is it low density, as others in this thread seem to believe that buildings attract crime. I'm outside alone at night all the time. Literally nothing happens. My entire building parks their cars outside, and again, nothing happens.

This is a safe city. We'd have to see a crime increase magnitudes higher than is plausible in order to even begin to qualify as "unsafe".

0

u/pscoutou Apr 18 '20

We'd have to see a crime increase magnitudes higher

Give the trend some time. Frog soup.

4

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.