Reporting Crimes In Canada

Reporting Crimes:
You witness a young boy break into a house down the street, and enter the home. A few minutes later you see him come out with a tv. Would you report it? A ton of crimes go unreported. Which poses problems when figuring out the actual number of crimes that are committed. Reporting possible crimes is another way we can prevent crime, if police are aware of what is going on then can find the offender. Thus taking them off the streets, preventing it from happening again. The criminal justice funnel helps us to do so, by reporting a crime although many go unreported. Police can then investigate, and do victimization studies. But, a large amount of violent crimes are not reported. As we continue to encourage people to report any crimes, through any anonymous source people …show more content…
Making the public more aware that they will not be in trouble for reporting something they see or hear will help people become more comfortable with telling police. In 2010, 2.1 million incidents were reported to police, which was the lowest since 1973 (Goff, 114). It’s been found that often only the more serious types of crimes are reported, which is not helpful. Any and all crimes need to be reported in order to figure out what the crime rate really is. In Canada the Uniform Crime Reporting Society (UCR) helps measure the number of crimes in Canada, and facts about them. The data collected from tem can help with crime analysis, program developing, and police resources. There are also many factors affecting police reported crime rates such as demographics, age, structure of population, social and economic factors. Also, inflation positively correlated with certain crimes, financially motivated crimes, etc (Goff, 118). Crime needs to continue to be reported, and dealt with in order to ensure that the rate