"Find a news archive service [...] and search something like “home invasions Toronto.” You’ll find they didn’t used to happen. Ditto “carjackings.” The basic reason crime is down in the near term is because it reached a massive peak during the pandemic, along with opioid-death tolls and other awful phenomena. [...] In the meantime, believe your lying eyes: crime stats may be down from recent highs, but they’ve been considerably lower well within living memory."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-dont-swallow-the-crime-is-down-tripe/
@mpjgregoire
I cannot think of reading a more poorly-written article from the National Putz.
Based on the quote
"Find a news archive service [...] and search something like “home invasions Toronto.” You’ll find they didn’t used to happen. Ditto “carjackings.” ,
I expected to see cherry-picked data from a cherry-picked source.
There was no data at all, just an opinion using one break-in in support. Unless the archive.is version somehow omitted them.
Apart from telling us to do our own research (why not write the article for him, too?) he also tells us to come to his conclusion after doing our own research, which is absurd.