Submitted 8 months ago by LineNoise@kbin.social to australia@aussie.zone
Queensland is frequently portrayed as being in the grips of a worsening crime, epidemic despite data suggesting otherwise. But a trip down memory lane reveals the media has been reporting a similar sentiment for nearly 200 years.
I mainly watch ABC but 9 seems to be going crazy over the youth crime thing compared to anyone else, hope the LNP pay them for their campaigning
Presumably if Sir Joh was still in power, he’d put all those youths in boot camps to straighten them out or something, but the current politicians are too soft/woke to do that.
So, in my regional QLD state, the inner city (keep in mind, it’s a small city) has between 50 and 100 serious crimes committed per day.
A decade ago, about a third of the crimes were committed by juveniles. It’s now well over half of them.
What’s the rough population? What’s a serious crime? 50 to 100 a day is 18 to 35000 serious crimes a year. Where are you getting your stats?
Because if it’s not Brisbane, then it’s like one in 10 of the population of gold coast or central coast per year having a serious crime or one in 3 for Townsville or smaller. Seems unlikely to me, but I’m open to seeing your data.
It’s cairns, stats are offical QLD police force numbers form their website.
vividspecter@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Oh wait you’re serious, let me laugh even harder.