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             equal, the division off the total population within a given city by the number
             of murders in any given time period. In order for crime to be reported there
             must be two characteristics distinguishable, actus reas and mens rea. Actus
             reas is when there is an act apparent that violates some law. Mens rea is that
             there is evident intent, although, if there is not we can then define the act as
             negligent. Negligent being an act that violates some law, yet, was
             unintentional. Canada uses official data as their primary method of data
             collecting. With this in mind we must take a strong look at official data as a
             means of determining the crime rate. We can then determine how the decrease
             in crime rate that was quoted by Statistics Canada has the potential to be
             flawed. First, we can consider from our definition of official data that this
             type of data fails to encompass unfounded data. Data unreported and
             therefore, unaccounted for, is known as the 'dark figure' of crime. The dark
             figure of crime is 'crime that fails to get processed through the crime funnel.'
             The crime funnel will be examined in the analysis of unofficial data within
             this report, however, to provide a quick definition is, the course of action
             taken towards conviction. "Only 10% of all crimes get processed though this
             system."3 We can determine then that 90% of crimes occurring are
             overlooked using official data. Secondly, critics of official data argue that this
             type of data does not tell us anything about actual crime. In fact it is more of a
             depiction of police policies and procedures. "Crime statistics do not measure
             criminal behaviour they measure the response of various agencies to their
             perceptions of crime."4 We can then determine that the quote in the daily by
             statistics Canada may hold to be flawed by lack of uniformity in measurement
             by police in differen...