Cost-of-living crisis blamed for soaring crime rates

Police Minister Anthony Carbines said Victoria's surging crime rate came from repeat offenders. Video via AAP

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00:00Our unique offender rate remains stable. What that's telling us

00:03is that there's many of the same people committing additional offences

00:08that are driving our crime rate. That is why

00:11the government has introduced the toughest bail laws in the country

00:15and we are seeing in our bail statistics, our remand statistics

00:19that some 100% of youth offenders

00:23have been remanded in the first three months. We've seen a 100%

00:27change but you can't improve on that. That's a demonstration

00:31that our new tough bail laws are working. We've seen a 100% increase in youth

00:36offenders that have been remanded, that have had their bail revoked

00:40and that are in custody. We've also seen a 31% increase in adults

00:45who have been remanded, who have had their bail revoked,

00:48who have been put into custody since our new

00:52bail laws have been in force. We'll start to see

00:56those tougher bail laws have an effect on some of our crime

01:01statistics and crime indicators in future quarters.