Violent Crime & BC

I believe that violent crimes have been decreasing since 1998 I believe that is has to do with three things. Although in about 2000 it seemed to rise back up quite a bit.here are my 3 theory’s:

1-technology
2-population/government
3-lifestyle

Technology- Violent crime is decreasing partly because its harder to commit a violent crime and not get caught due to recent DNA tests that can link people to crime scenes. Our technology is getting bigger and stronger and this makes it harder for people to hide or disappear. Although criminals use technology to their benefit we can use it just as well to prevent them. We use devices such as surveillance to monitor people, GPS to track people, but scientific technology is by far the most advanced and scares people out of committing crime.

Population/government- Communities are changing, our safe neighbourhoods are a way of life and although we do have many bad neighbourhoods we are still more generally safe than we were a few decades ago. To be completely honest our government isn’t going to stand by and watch our crime rates slide past without doing something to stop it. Canada is known for being a free country and other than a few reasonable laws we are pretty free. After all we have Fundamental freedoms, Democratic rights, Mobility rights, Legal rights, Equality rights, Language rights, Minority language education rights-
more @
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms

lifestyle- Statistics show that British Columbia has the highest amount of high crime cities. Canada’s most dangerous city is Prince George with a population of 73,590. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/12/14/bc-prince-george-crime-capital.html Violent crime also comes from the environments people grow up in or live in, for instance if someone had abusive parents they may grow up to be abusive people. If someone was sexually abused or assaulted they may grow up be to violent because of mental confusion and anger. There are tons of reasons why people become violent and I believe that their lifestyle and home life has one of the biggest impacts.

People are led to believe that crime is increasing but that’s only because they hear about these crimes on the news which largely magnify them and exaggerate them.
say 20 years ago crime wasnt so woidely and largely broadcasted