Smart Link of the Day: Smart on Crime Editorials

On the heels of the July 21st Statistics Canada report on crime statistics for 2010, several media outlets ran editorials over the past few days asking a similar question: If crime has been on a downward trend since 1973, why is the ‘tough of crime’ agenda so popular? These editorials appeared as music to our ‘smart on crime’ ears; because asking tough questions about evidence based practice is the smart thing to do!

Here’s a collection of the coast-to-coast reflections:

• Crime falls to 1973 levels as Tories push for sentencing reform  – Globe & Mail, July 21
• Demographics behind drop in crime, expert says – The Chronicle Herald (Halifax), July 22
• Approach to justice not conservative, nor is it rational – Vancouver Sun, July 23
• Bogus policy on crime – Hamilton Spectator, July 24
• Animated fear about crime – Calgary Herald, July 25
• Another view: crime – Waterloo Region Record, July 26, 2011 (reprinted from the Hamilton Spectator)

Have you seen other editorials and articles on this in your city or town newspaper? Send us the link and we will add it to the list above.