Crime has been declining for decades across countries with quite varied policing practices and funding.
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Police are still reeling from a decade of austerity funding cuts.
Recent data from Statistics Canada shows crime rates in Canada rising. Crime has become a hot-button political issue in Canadian cities. But what does the data actually mean?
The greedy tendencies of police departments help illustrate why public police funding is a major problem today in Canada and the United States.
Despite growing public criticism over how much counties, cities and towns spend on policing, many are increasing officer pay.
The prestige the role of detective once had has been eroded and needs to be restored.
The provincial government has funding to support non-police safety and well-being initiatives — but 99 per cent of it just supplements police budgets.
New plans will speed students through an intensive training course, that will see them working cases in 12 weeks.
The UK’s blue light services need to adapt and modernise or they will face their own emergency.
But with many different demands on police time, some not relating to crime, it’s hard to estimate.
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Professor of Leadership and Management, Edge Hill University
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Postdoc researcher, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Policing and Criminal Investigation, University of Lancashire
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Visiting Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Leeds
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Professor of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Windsor
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Visiting Professor in Solution Oriented Policing, De Montfort University; Loughborough University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg
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PhD researcher, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Crime Science, University of Leeds