I think you're talking about reports versus incidents. It's pretty hard to put six different victims on one incident. So it would still be counted as six victims, if that's what you're looking for. There have been some changes, though. There has been a different weighting, in relation to the violence, giving a greater weighting to violent crimes.
You talk about the statistics. I honestly think there are some real contributors, and it's diverse across our country, as much as our country is diverse. A lot of this ties to age demographics. If you go to Saskatchewan and you look where I police, the majority of our population is under 24. There's high marginalization in northern Saskatchewan that predicts that in eight to 10 years, 50% of the population will be under 15. Tie that in to some of the northern regions, and then if you go into some of the bigger centres where it's an aging population of baby boomers, there's a play in relation to that as well.
I think what you've seen is the complexity of the crime and the severity and how we deal with it. There's a real good report, the Plecas report, that came out a few years back. There's a lot more time spent on crime and how we deal with it. What used to be easily reported has become complicated, but there have been so many processes added to it, and there's a lot of time spent in relation to that. So there has been some tweaking in how it's reported. I think it's highly affected by the demographic and it's different across the country, so to use one brush to paint across the country isn't right.
The other thing I would say is that in relation to the Scotland model, we took a team to Scotland to study it and we're doing some of that in Prince Albert.