As crime plummets, it's costing us more, thanks to Harper

Crime is way down but we're paying more and more for policing, the legal system and prisons under the federal Conservatives.

While the crime rate fell 23 per cent over the last decade, the cost of dealing with it skyrocketed by a similar amount - to $20.3 billion a year, the Parliamentary budget officer reported Wednesday.
That's about the same amount Canada spends on military defence.

And that's not including the rising costs of victims' compensation, private security or related civil bills.

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