Queensland’s LNP government has released figures claiming a substantial drop in the state’s victims of crime rate, as the Labor opposition accuses it of cherrypicking data.
During last year’s state election campaign, the premier, David Crisafulli, staked his leadership on reducing the crime victim rates each year of his first term in government. He initially vowed to resign if crime victim numbers did not reduce under a government led by him, but later walked that back, claiming that he was referring to per capita rates, and not the overall number of victims.
