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Cancrime
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Cancrime is crime, explained. How are murders solved? Why are crime maps useless? Find out what crime stats don't tell us. Twenty-year veteran crime writer Rob Tripp blogs about Canadian crime, criminals and the justice system plus, the document archive, commentary and context.
Recent Posts
Codiac Regional Police tops at crime solving
Statistics Canada's new weighted system for tracking the rate at which Canadian police solve crimes crowns the regional police service in Codiac, New Brunswick, an RCMP detachment, as tops in the country. Codiac police solved 46% of crimes in 2008, a...
How many crimes do police solve?
There may be some anxiety among police departments across Canada today. The latest clearance figures – numbers that show how many crimes police solve – will be released today by Statistics Canada, but with a twist. StatsCan has revised the way it...
Kingston canal murder prelim begins unexpectedly
For weeks now, everyone associated with the Kingston canal murder case, prosecutors, defence lawyers, court administrators, has been saying that the next major step in the process was set for Feb. 2 - the date on which the preliminary hearing was sch...
Accused canal killers make surprise court appearance
There was a significant and surprising development today in the Kingston canal mass murder case. Details will be posted here tomorrow and at the Kingston Whig-Standard site....
Tory get-tough tactics amount to downloading?
Is the Conservative government in Ottawa downloading the social costs of misguided crime and justice policies onto local governments? That's the intriguing question posed by a prominent critic of Tory tough-on-crime tactics. In the political context,...
Missing context in Sherry Sherret\'s acquittal
Murder convictions are not tidy, simple matters, in most cases. So too acquittals or overturned convictions, long after the fact. But you wouldn't know that from most news coverage, including reports today about the decision by Ontario's top court to...
