Latest crime stats

NZ and the released the latest crime stats today.

Here's the change in various crime rates (per 10,000 people) since 2008:

  • Homicide rate down 39%
  • Violent offence rate down 11%
  • Robbery rate down 26%
  • rate down 17%
  • Theft rate down 18%
  • Sexual offending rate up 30%

So all but sexual offending rates are down, and that may be more due to increased reporting than a change in the incident rate – very hard to know.

Also the change over the last 18 months, since 2012:

  • Homicide rate down 6%
  • Violent offence rate down 5%
  • Robbery rate down 1%
  • Burglary rate down 3%
  • Theft rate up 1%
  • Sexual offending rate up 8%

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