{"id":822751,"date":"2026-07-24T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822751\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:22:28","slug":"falling-crime-numbers-raise-questions-about-ottawas-tough-on-crime-bills-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822751\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling crime numbers raise questions about Ottawa\u2019s tough-on-crime bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 One advocate says new statistics indicating crime has dropped almost everywhere in Canada show the Liberal government\u2019s three tough-on-crime bills were not based on facts.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics Canada says both the rates and severity of reported crime were down almost across the board in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament passed three bills last month that introduced new offences to the Criminal Code, made it more difficult to get bail for a variety of crimes and restored mandatory minimum prison penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Latimer, executive director of the John Howard Society of Canada, says Ottawa lacked evidence to show that the three bills actually addressed a public safety problem or would do anything to make people safer in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>Latimer says the politicization of criminal policy has led some Canadians to believe crime rates are higher than they are.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals introduced the three bills after the 2025 federal election campaign, during which the Conservative party campaigned heavily on cracking down on crime.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Edmonton as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=edmonton.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778178555_824_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 One advocate says new statistics indicating crime has dropped almost everywhere in Canada show the Liberal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,713,47,20739,714],"class_list":["post-822751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-justice","tag-national","tag-ottawa","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}