We were bitterly divided in the 60s and, appropriately, our memories of that decade are divided as well. Ian Lee provides a provocative series of Canadian crime statistics in an op-ed piece in the National Post:
“The last 10 years of Stats Canada data do reflect a national decline in violent crime. But the recent record ignores enormous increases in crime over the last half-century. In 1962, Canadians reported 221 violent crimes per 100,000 people. This figure doubled by 1970 to 480, increased to 636 in 1980 and finally peaked at 1,084 in 1992—a 500% increase in 30 years.”
If your memory is vivid—and you stuck with the “squares”—you may think that the times aren’t getting back to normal very fast.
Put all the perverts in jail
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