Think there’s more crime around? You’d be right

Perhaps it is little surprise that the government was not keen to share the latest crime data. Reported crime for 2019/20 increased by 2 per cent, the crime rate was up by 0.3 per cent. In fact, over the last nine years, the Queensland crime rate has risen 15.4 per cent. Compare this to Victoria which had a crime increase of only 9 per cent over a similar period. If you think more crime is occurring in our society, you would be right. The latest data shows that for the last 12 months we have seen…



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