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Annotated Bibliography: Is Crime Going Down

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Is Crime Going Up?
(Annotated Bibliography) Desai, Neil. "The crime rate is falling, but are we really safer?" The Globe And Mail, 30 July 2015, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-crime-rate-is-falling-but-are-we-really-safer/article25771329/. Accessed 26 Jan. 2017.
This article explains recent statistics about Canada's crimes going down, it also questions the false sense of security that Canadians have been hearing, that the crime rate is going down. The author provides fairly recent information and clearly states when created and updated. Information about herself is not stated other her name. The article has only one citation, to an official article that is from the same site but from a different section. This article was found in the opinion section of a reputable site (known from research about the site.) It gives the feeling as if it is stating facts if you do not pay attention to details. For example, in the beginning, this gives the impression as if it's a factual article, it begins by giving facts but as you go down you realize that it's more of an opinion. I would not use this section as a …show more content…

The author's information is not recent and you can not locate the author's name or a date when the article was published. At least one-quarter of the links the author provides are not available or not reputable sites. In the article, there are areas where it is not cited correctly or is missing a citation, as said in the article. For example, https://hamiltonpolice.on.ca, this site was cited and when clicked on not found. In addition, there have been many warnings about using this site because it's unreliable and does not have clear sources, from other reliable sites. I would never use this article because is does not have a clear author or a clear date when it was published. The information is not recent and the article does not get

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