In this episode, I talk about how Liberals in the media and online are lying about crime in Canada, and why it really gets under my skin. These lies drive public policy makers to not actually fix the problems they've created, because haven't you seen the headlines? Crime is getting worse, and some of the lies from the media are so ridiculous, you can use the same source they used in order to prove them wrong.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. Liberals in the media and online are lying about crime in Canada, and it really gets under my skin as someone with a research background on the topic of crime.
00:00:13.720What the liberal allies are doing is effectively giving a permission structure to Prime Minister Mark Carney and his liberal government to do nothing about crime because supposedly the problem is already getting better, so why should they have to repeal the Trudeau-era soft-on-crime policies like Bill C-75?
00:00:34.460That is why this is so toxic. These lies can drive public policy makers to not actually fix the problems they've created because haven't you seen the headlines? Crime is getting better.
00:00:46.640It's not. It's going up, and some of the lies from the media are so ridiculous you can use the same source they used in order to prove them wrong, and it's not that difficult to do.
00:00:58.960You don't need a master's degree in this. You just need basic internet connection.
00:01:04.460Anyways, before I get into the topic, guys, make sure to like the video if you like the channel. Subscribe if you are not yet a subscriber. I'm trying to get to 100,000 subscribers by mid-December of this year, or I owe my four friends dinner.
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00:01:36.500Anyways, so let's get into this topic, starting with this headline from Global News that reads,
00:01:44.160Police reported crime in Canada, well, in 2024 for first time since pandemic.
00:01:49.600Now, right off the bat, I'm going to tell you this is not true. It is obviously not true based on the source he uses, which is Statistics Canada.
00:01:59.820Maybe he's trying to be a bit weaselly by saying police reported crime, because the way crime statistics are actually compiled is that they, you know, take police reports,
00:02:10.380but then they also survey people to see if there has been crimes committed against them that were not reported.
00:02:16.880You know, a bicycle was taken from the side of your house, and you didn't notice that it was taken two days ago,
00:02:22.500so you don't even bother putting out an incident report or calling the police.
00:02:26.600You know it's probably long gone. It's been scrapped, or it's across the city, so what's the point?
00:02:31.260Or you were, you know, you were struck somewhere, someone punched you, the guy ran away, you know that the police are probably not going to catch him, so you didn't report it.
00:02:40.880Or there are certain things you can't report anymore, like drug crimes in British Columbia and Toronto,
00:02:46.980because they are living under states of decriminalization, which also drives down statistics and means that people don't report things that are still felonies,
00:02:55.980because they believe that the decriminalization makes it okay.
00:02:59.080Even in BC, you still are only allowed to possess a certain amount of controlled substances,
00:03:04.700but it means that nobody really ends up reporting it on the off chance that someone has a gram or more than they're supposed to be able to carry at one time.
00:03:13.480So, already, this is just not accurate, and when you read the article, what they end up doing is often just focusing on non-violent crimes.
00:03:23.420Wow, overall crime is down because, I guess, fewer people committed misdemeanors, or there has been slightly lower motor vehicle thefts.
00:03:32.420You know, motor vehicle thefts are serious crimes, but it's a crime that doesn't really reflect the actual amount of criminality out there.
00:03:39.700In 2021 and 2022, there was that big spate of theft of Kia cars, because there was easy exploits in order to be able to break into them and hotwire them.
00:03:50.500So, you had all these people around North America stealing Kias any chance that they got, because it was super easy.
00:03:56.820That's a crime that naturally went down, because car companies have had to put more security measures in place to prevent stuff like that from happening.
00:04:03.800And then, again, there's just other crimes that better security ends up driving down.
00:04:08.640But, again, this article headline is still wrong.
00:04:12.320Even when I take non-violent offenses into account, crime is still up.
00:04:18.460Now, I'm going to use the same source that this author supposedly used.
00:04:23.180Maybe Stats Canada put out a press release, and he just copy and pasted it.
00:04:26.980That would mean Stats Canada's lying about their own stats.
00:04:32.120Obviously, I'm not going to keep these on screen very long, because they are just hard to look at.
00:04:37.140But you can be very well, you can rest assured that I have the incident-based reporting here.
00:04:43.820That takes, again, into account police crime statistics, like the police reports, as well as the survey results.
00:04:50.040In the year 2020, because that article said that incidents of crime had dropped for the first time since the pandemic, although I also noticed that the article seems to imply that the pandemic COVID started in 2021.
00:05:05.660That seems like a deliberate choice, but even then, that wouldn't change anything.
00:05:08.680I will focus on the crime rate, not just raw incidents, although the rate is actually a little bit dishonest, because naturally, when we've had mass immigration, a lot of students, a lot of TFWs, those people are not going to commit a lot of crimes.
00:05:24.840Naturally, when you enter a new country and you're terrified of potentially being deported, if you do anything wrong, you're going to be on your best behavior.
00:05:32.140We do have foreign students, and we do have TFWs committing crimes.
00:05:36.380But the thing is, it's a little bit of a, it ends up kind of padding the numbers out a bit, because most TFWs work and go home, work, go home, send remittances home.
00:05:46.480They finish their time, and then they try and get an extension, or they're supposed to leave, but many of them don't.
00:05:51.960But generally speaking, if you immigrate to a new country, you don't get off the plane and just start committing crimes left and right.
00:05:57.120So it actually under-represents how bad the crime rate is by only just focusing on the rate.
00:06:02.700But that's what we will do today, because that's what the article did.
00:06:06.380So in 2020, this is all instances of crime, 2020, per capita, per 100,000, there was 5,896.62 crimes per 100,000.
00:06:23.700I also have 2015 here, because I want to show what it was like when Justin Trudeau first entered office.
00:06:29.360But in the year 2024, which we have been told by the reputable global news outlet,
00:06:36.380that it's down for the first time since the pandemic, in 2024, we had 6,133.52 crimes per 100,000.
00:06:51.700Now, maybe Mr. Sean Boynton doesn't know how to do math, he doesn't know what numbers mean,
00:06:59.440but this number is in fact bigger than that number.
00:07:04.680And also, what is kind of dishonest here that people will do is that they will take a crime peak.
00:07:10.900In many ways, 2023 was a higher crime year than 2024.
00:07:18.160But they can't say since the pandemic, it's gone down.
00:07:20.980Are they counting 2023 as the pandemic?
00:07:23.300I would say I'd rather count it since the start of the pandemic, since the start has crime gone down,
00:07:28.500because those were higher crime years.
00:07:30.5802020 was actually a low crime year, and we are way above that.