According to statistics found on statcan.gc.ca police reported "overall" crimes are on the decrease, imparticular the most severe crimes. Violent crimes stay fairly even, although there is a slight decrease in their number. In 2001 there was a peak in violent crimes, and then it began a slow decrease to 2008. Based on the information that most crimes except for possibly violent ones are on the decrease makes me believe that maybe the main cause for these slowly increasing violent crimes is the increase in violence in our media, family life, and school lives. Young people learn violence from those they respect or from influencing sources in their lives. If a young person is constantly bombarded with violence in the tv they watch and the video games they play and if their parents are violent towards them or towards each other than they will learn violence and will become violent towards others. In general, our media- video games, movies, tv, sports, magazines, book- are all becoming more violent. This could be a possible cause for the slow increase in violent crimes in B.C.
Possible reasons for the decrease in overall crimes may be for the sole reason that our generation is aging. People are growing old and there are less young people than there was previous to this time. I believe that because of this there are less crimes overall because a lot of the time criminals are in younger generations. Another reason for the crime decrease could be because we are in a bit of an economical "down" and when that happens people aren't out as much causing trouble and commiting crimes. They are busy working and with their families. These are some possible reasons for the decrease in crimes in British Columbia.
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