Crime rates in Victoria continue to be hotly debated in the lead up to November's state election.
However, Mr Guy is referring to crimes by count alone (that is, by simple numbers), which doesn't account for population growth; in some cases, he also cherry-picks types of crimes. For example, the CSA classifies aggravated robbery as a sub-set of the broader category of robbery, which falls within the offence division of "crimes against the person". Mr Guy is also selective when citing figures for common assault, which is a sub-category of the broader assault division and which has seen a 37 per cent increase in offences since 2014. But CSA data for the broader "assault and related offences" category, shows only a 16 per cent increase over the same period. Experts told Fact Check that focusing on crime rates per 100,000 of population — rather than by raw numbers alone, as Mr Guy appears to have done —would give a more accurate picture of crime across the state. They also pointed out that crime numbers fluctuated from year to year, and there were different ways of measuring crime.
Fact check: Have robberies, assaults and burglaries increased in Victoria since Labor was elected?
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