Police Reported
The official name of the annual report by Statistics Canada that collects information from Canadian police services
What is the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey?
The GSS on Victimization is a _____ survey that can help provide a more robust picture of crime and victimization in Canada
what is complementary?
this is the basic assumption that is used to define statistics
what is neutral?
The issues surrounding the under-counting of hate crimes within Canada is partially caused by:
What are the differing definitions?
When the authority figure is cautious of what situations to enforce the law and where it can be more lenient
what is police discretion?
This author wrote about Police-reported statistics in Police-reported crime statistics in Canada. Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics.(2021)
Who is Greg Moreau?
Underreported crimes are crimes in which they are not reported to the police for various reasons.
what is the dark figure?
According to Ruha Benjamin, data can be ____ to pathologize communities.
what is weaponized?
The stability in the CSI is a result of increases in ____ crime and continued decreases in ____ crime.
what is violent?
What is non-violent?
The definition of crime varies across time and place and is inherently ____
what is political?
Some crimes rely on these to respond to minor offences such as mischief and disturbing the
peace
What are municipal bylaws and
provincial statutes?
Statistics Canada also collects information on self-
reported criminal victimization through this survey every five years
what is the General Social Survey (GSS) on Canadians’ Safety (Victimization)?
According to Ruha Benjamin, we should focus on this instead of race when it comes to race-based statistics
what is racism?
Police-reported crime in Canada, as measured by ____, was stable, shifting from 73.9 (2020) to 73.7 (2021).
what is the Crime Severity Index (CSI)?
Most of these crimes are not detailed, in which police departments fail to track them.
What are sexual assaults, household burglaries, and personal thefts?
Police-reported data includes a broader range of types of violent crime
than does the GSS
what is robbery, physical assault, and sexual assault?
The General Social Survey (GSS) might say that data collected by police-reported surveys (such as the UCR) are _____
what is incomplete?
this is the only province in which there is a mandate for race-data collection of when police use force on an individual
what is Ontario?
The increase in level 1 sexual assault accounted for 40% of the increase in this report
what is the violent CSI?
Crime data from police departments does not undergo this process
and has a history of being manipulated for political purposes
what is intense third-party verification?
This is the large commission by the Federal Government charged with the role of providing accessible statistics to the public.
What is Statistics Canada?
the GSS shows that women are at a greater risk of being a ____
What is a victim?
Due to this concern, led to the announcement for police forces to start collecting race-based data
what are high-profile deaths in marginalized communities?
This type of crime increased 72% over the last two years, Jewish, Muslim and
Catholic religions and different sexual orientations
what is a hate crime?
These crimes are not tracked by police departments
what are workplace crimes, environmental violations
by businesses, “white collar” crimes?