UK Tories like to be "tough-on-crime". That brand has a familiar ring to Canadians.
Anyway, crime does not include misrepresentation of facts with intent to mislead as is made evident by this story in the Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lies-damn-lies-and-tory-crime-statistics-1889927.html
I wonder if Munir A Sheikh, Chief Statistician of Statistics Canada would have found himself in civil servant whistle-blower heaven along with Linda Keen had he issued the same scolding about abusing statistics to make up a bogus issue.
Even police departments in Canada and the US are complaining that the dire warnings about the rise of violent crime in our respective societies are exactly incorrect. The incidence of violent crime is actually falling.
By the way, it's the Republicans, US version of Tories, also making these misleading claims.
The issue is, why make these claims? What's the point? Are they simply besmirching the reputations of non-Tories? Are they using a magician's sleight-of-hand to distract the people while they are actually up to something else? Are they trying to create an opportunity to increase government executive power in this area so it can be applied in all other areas?
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