"For the past 8 years from 1999 there has been a 5% decrease in the rate
             of crime among Canada's three largest provinces and 9 largest metropolitan
             areas." This was quoted by Statistics Canada on July 18, 2000, in a
             publication of The Daily. Crime can be defined as "...any act or omission
             regarded by a sizable segment of a given society as warranting formal
             intervention to control, punish and prevent behaviours."1 However the
             diminishing crime rate may not hold to be a true depiction of a national trend
             in all provinces. The decreasing crime rate in relation to Canadian society as a
             whole may not hold to be accurate for three main explanations; Statistics
             Canada's method of official data collection to reveal the crime rate does not
             present a flawless process, there is an evident lack of uniformity amoung
             different geographical segments, within Canada, in police reporting and
             policies, and Canadian citizens views in relation to reporting and the crime
             funnel, examined with unofficial data, prove to be a factor that consequently
             influences crime statistics. Canadian society can be defined in relation to this
             paper as; all Canadian citizens habituated within Canada holding everything
             Statistics Canada utilizes data measured in a structure known as official
             data, to yield information that explains criminal activity and crime trends.
             Official data is data collected through the uniform crime reporting systems
             (U.C.R). U.C.R was established in 1962. U.C.R represents data that is;
             "actual offences, those reported or detected offences that have been found ,
             upon preliminary investigation to have actually occurred, as opposed to being
             unfounded."2 Therefore, official data is a measure of information collected
             and accounted for on those crimes that have come to the attention of the
             police. An example of a crime rate for homicide using official dat...