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Oh no, not the "moderators"...WHATever will I do?
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Get your act together or be suspended or possibly banned from this site?
My name isn't green just to look pretty. If I find that an individual is souring the discourse of a discussion on any sub-forum at Skyscraperpage, it is my responsibility as a member of the website's staff to bring that individual to attention. I've been suspended myself before (years ago), so I know what kind of behaviour to look for, and you're starting to exhibit it.
Keep in mind that this website is private property, and the owners of it have no responsibility to allow you to post whatever you want here. There are rules in place to ensure an enjoyable time is had by all members and if your only mission in this discussion is to insult people without providing any source to back up your claim, then you are acting contrary to those rules and action must be taken to maintain civil decorum on this board.
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We are discussing the trend in Manitoba's overall crime rate over the years, compared to which party was in power at the time. That was the basic point reflected by the statistics in the post by Authentic_City, to which you replied with an insult and then a contradictory claim but no evidence to back it up. I said that you should give us a source to back up your claim, and you refused, saying "he can do the work", claiming to be a prick, and then you insulted
me. After mentioning that I will have to bring this thread to the attention of moderation, you mocked me, and as I will explain below, have yet to provide a source to back up your claim that Authentic_City's apparently solid hypothesis, about the correlation of crime rates and the party in power of the government, was wrong.
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This shows violent crime severity index by CMA for a single year—2010. It does not prove wrong Authentic_City's statement that crime was higher under the PCs and has declined under the NDP.
No one has denied that Winnipeg has a higher crime rate than most Canadian cities, or that among the larger cities in Canada, its crime rate is the highest or in the top five annually.
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This shows crime rate per 100,000 people by province for a single year—2010. It does not prove wrong Authentic_City's statement that crime was higher under the PCs and has declined under the NDP, because it only shows a single year. Again, no one has denied that Manitoba has a high crime rate.
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This article, like the two above, only has data for a short period of time, and cannot be used to prove or disprove Authentic_City's statement that crime was higher under the PCs and has declined under the NDP.
In fact, it claims that Statistics Canada (the source you want us to accept) is saying the overall crime rate in Manitoba went down between 2009 and 2010, while the NDP was in power. This adds at least a small amount of credibility to Authentic_City's claim that crime has at least declined at some point during NDP governance.
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This is the same article as above, but posted on a different website. Winnipeg Sun and CNews at Canoe.ca are both owned by Sun Media, and share resources.
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And of course, nobody wants to talk about the elephant in the room, we have a serious problem with our aboriginal population, just as Edmonton, Regina and Saskatoon have.
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Over the past four years, I have made about 20 essay-length posts on this board, primarily in the Violent Crime in Winnipeg and First Nations Issues threads discussing the aboriginal crime problem, its origins, its possible solutions, and the width and breadth of the issue, which stretches much further than just Edmonton to Winnipeg and much longer than the current NDP government's reign. Your own posts have sparked several of them, but you never reply to them. After a period of time where no one makes a post in that thread, the ice is broken by you simply posting another article about crime, as if that will make me "see the light" and concede the argument to you.
I read the news, too. In addition to that, I actually live in a neighbourhood with a high crime rate and a lot of aboriginal people, and I see that it is mostly aboriginals committing those crimes. I also see that it is mostly aboriginals who are victims of those crimes, and that often, those victims are commiting crimes themselves.
I see with my own eyes the world you're trying to tell me about with other people's words.
What do you want me to say?