[Australia] OECD crime report 'dated, irrelevant' / The Advertiser: , 29 Mar 2006

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"NEW South Wales Police Minister Carl Scully has labelled irrelevant and outdated a report showing serious crime is more likely to occur in Australia than in other developed nations. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) annual report found Australia had the highest rate of victimisation. It said Australia had the highest proportion of victims of assaults, threats and crimes of a sexual nature of the OECD's member nations, the second highest proportion of burglaries, and high rates of robberies, car thefts and thefts from cars.
Mr Scully said the most up-to-date figures in the report were from 2000 and he would ask the state's crime statistics agency to send more recent figures to the OECD.
'When I think of LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) with 500 murders (a year) and we have 70 and I think of Chicago police with 550 murders a year and we have 70 I start to raise my eyebrows about how accurate that report is,' he said. 'And I see it's in the year 2000. It is completely and utterly out of date and irrelevant.' " [Snippet]