Overall crime figures down again this year: NPA
TOKYO —
The National Police Agency says that the number of confirmed crimes resulting in conviction recorded between January and November this year is again lower than last year. Police say that if the trend continues, Japan’s crime figures are expected to fall to around half of the all-time high recorded 10 years ago.
The NPA says 2002 was the worst year on record for crime statistics with a total of 2.85 million confirmed offenses. The agency added that 2012 currently stands at 1.28 million cases.
On the other hand, the statistics showed an escalation in cases of assault and threats, NTV reported. Crimes perpetrated against family members, including domestic violence, rose this year. Cases of coercement to commit an obscenity, a crime which often involves the statutory rape or abuse of underage girls, surged this year, said police. The statistics also showed an increase in such cases involving girls under the age of 13.
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Harry_Gatto
The key words here are ............"resulting in conviction.............." To get a conviction they have to first catch the perpetrators so it seems that fewer are handing themselves in voluntarily.
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FightingViking
@Harry_Gatto f
...and when they try to hand themselves in, they're turned away...
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Mirai Hayashi
Notice that they are not saying what kind of crime is down. Probably small crimes such as petty theft is down, but I would argue that violent crime is probably up. I would love to see if murder and rape is also down...
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Virtuoso
That should have been translated as "confirmed violations of the criminal code," i.e., prosecutable felonies and misdemeanors that do not cover violations of other special laws such as traffic, immigration violations, etc.
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Lowly
Crime is down? Or just the cops are taking it easy and not solving cases??
Mirai- I would imagine petty theft etc would be up, considering the economy continues to be slow... ppl gotta eat.
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hereforever
Good job DPJ.
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Ewan Huzarmy
Crime figures down, really ? Was this calculated by the same body of people that mis-counted the votes on Sunday ?
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Scrote
Nothing to say about crimes committed by non-Japanese? I assume such crimes must have fallen, otherwise the police would be the first to shout about it.
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Nessie
You know them too well, Scrote.
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viking68
Is there an escalation or a past failure to report.
I suppose the conviction comment ties to the forgone conclusion of guilt. If someone wasn't convicted, then there was not a crime. Easy.
Crimes reported would be a better figure than convictions. Anyone know how the FBI reports crime? I seem to have some unknown confidence in the FBI reports.
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viking68
I would also like to see a foreigner crime stat with this one. It would shut up some people I know who always scoffs at the foreign crime reports. I know some people who think that most crimes are committed by Foreigners, yet I constantly read and see stories about Japanese committing the majority of crimes.
A crime per capita would be an interesting statistic, e.g., the rate of crime by age, education, location, citizenship, type of crime, etc.
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Reckless
how about them gaijin crimes?!!! must be going down else they would have emphasized it was going up. how inconvenient for the hardliners!
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zichi
Crimes committed by foreigners is less than 50% of the crimes committed by Japanese, and 90% of crimes by foreigners are for visa violations. This was from studying pervious years.
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Hide Suzuki
Do you guys just read the title and leave comment ?
"I really find this hard to believe! With all the reported cases of parents killing their children"
You should read the last paragraph "On the other hand, the statistics showed an escalation in cases of assault and threats"
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basroil
Hide SuzukiDec. 19, 2012 - 01:27AM JST
Yup, just another case of increased under-reporting rather than a good trend. Especially the bit about an increase in sexual exploitation of children under 13 in the last paragraph, looks like the cops just try to hid their failures under the rug.
And it's probably about time that they get rid of the music industry monopoly, since the sex crimes involving children seem to be perfectly correlated with the number of groups with young girls in skimpy outfits geared towards older men.
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