Criminal activity in New Tecumseth appears to be skyrocketing. The sole factor preventing unanimous consensus is all of the available data on crime in the region.
A report from Statistics Canada suggests crime in New Tecumseth is in decline in some respects and staying about the same in others. There is no information currently available for 2023 or 2024, but a handful of highly publicized news stories, along with something this lady said in line one time at Freshco, suggest the current state of New Tecumseth has made a complete about-face and is currently on par with the favelas of Rio.
It would appear that the sky is falling, and that's because it is, unless you’re referring to the literal sky or the metaphorical one.
While statistics and census data paint a picture of a relatively safe community, a responsible citizen knows to trust anecdotes and one’s own gut feeling.
The elderly in our community speak of an earlier time, before the internet, when crime was unheard of, people trusted one another, and livestock roamed the countryside. There were no self-checkout kiosks, no computer viruses, cell phones, cars, plumbing, or houses. Back then, the only crime was not picking a bowl full of juicy strawberries and rhubarb to bring home to mom so she could make a fresh pie for after supper.
A strawberry rhubarb pie from before cameras.
Yes, the town's crime rate in 2022 is still 59% lower than the provincial average and well under half that of the national average, but did you know 93.7% of percentages are blatantly invented or wildly exaggerated?
And sure, New Tecumseth ranked 5th in Maclean's Magazine's 2019 list of Canada's best communities, but who is to say how many communities were in the running? We can never know. The other day a friend’s dog’s winter gloves were stolen right off his paws. Does that sound like top-five material to you?
The dog is pictured above without mittens.
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