Once again, Statistics Canada, using info generously contributed by police forces across the country, has issued this reassuring statistical commentary: “Crime stats continue to decrease, along with the severity of crimes committed.” Who’s fooling whom? How many Canadians feel safer today than last year? Or the year before that? Or twenty years before that? The death of innocents still features in the news and the ringing of bullets still echoes in the consciousness of Canadians from the…