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The internet, and especially social media, allows any and every incident to get a bunch of attention. And the reach of those who would take advantage of this to push a narrative is wider than ever. So it can make people feel like there’s more out there than there actually is.

Which is not to say there isn’t crime out there or that there aren’t issues with our policing or legal systems. I imagine a lot of the more petty crime people are more likely to experience doesn’t get much attention when higher profile and more dangerous incidents need the resources (but that’s purely speculation).

And, of course, the growing affordability crisis and income inequality often leads to more of these more petty crimes. It’s all complicated.

It’s a visual representation over statistics. Daily, I see many people doing the fentanyl lean. We have stopped charging these people. People use to hide to consume drugs, now they do it openly, even on a table at Tim Hortons.

Edit: two more things. 

There seems to be way more civil unrest. Growing up I never saw protests at all or maybe 1 a year for a poor government decision. Now not seems like someone is protesting at least once a month. 

At least in my small city there is more cases of car prowling. Never heard of it and about 2 years ago people are saying they caught someone on their ring camera every week. Could be an increase in ring cameras but I really do think it’s a shift and it’s happening more. Problem is police is late pretty powerless to stop it. 

> But in Ottawa, both homicides and shootings were down in 2025 by more than 20 per cent year over year. Last year also marked the fewest homicides in Calgary in the last decade, and the latest data in Vancouver says assaults and robberies were down year over year. Toronto also recorded its lowest homicide total (42) since 1986.

This is an odd cherry-pick of statistics when the Crime Severity Index indicates nation-wide [violent crime has significantly increased over the last 10 years.](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510002601)

The downvotes(Rule 8?) are proof positive of the old adage it’s easier to fool someone than convinced someone they’ve been fooled.

When the major talking points of opposition parties are amplified online by foreign interests (ie US, Russia, China, India….) distortions in perceptions are bound to happen.

Not that there aren’t issues like any country it’s that information is politicized and manipulated to sway public opinion to favour domestic and foreign political interests.

This has to just be a downstream effect of more extremist rhetoric and fear bubbling up from the states/global internet, yes? The news would have us believe that pretty much everything is burning constantly, and our visceral lizard brains cannot differentiate between threats abroad and threats in our own communities/lives. Its really easy to see ‚others‘ as villainous when you’re constantly digesting information the tells you shit is really bad.

I think perceptions are speaking louder than the facts in this case.

My city had a beautiful downtown, and a nascent homeless issue, at the beginning of the pandemic. I’m not sure exactly what alchemy took place to transform it into what it became, but it is actually kind of scary now.

Not just the needles and open drug use everywhere, but the mentally unwell screaming and causing fights/disruptions. It’s definitely not the type of place I’d let children play, despite essentially being an open park.

Fentanyl, baby. What a fucking Pandora’s box that was.

What stats are people referencing here? Stats can has violent crime on a steep incline since 2015.

Source: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/250722/cg-a001-eng.htm