Dr. Gregory Jenion at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

On June 3rd, 2014. See this statement in context.

June 3rd, 2014 / 5 p.m.

Professor, Faculty, Criminology Department, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, As an Individual

I'll say that the one measure I wouldn't use is the crime rate. One of the things that I hear quite often is that Canada's crime rate is going down, and all of that. To be clear on that, it's the reported rate of crime. We know that.

We also know that something else is going down. In 2004, 34% of Canadians reported crime to police, according to the GSS, the general social survey victimization cycle component. In 2009 that number had dropped to 31% of Canadians reporting crime. How low does that number have to go before we question even the official reported rates of crime that are out there?

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