Yes, Victoria is in the grip of a crime wave

Crime in Victoria, and especially constant stories about theft are not a moral panic or painting media confectionery. Victoria has a serious crime problem – you don’t have any other state.

Especially the problem of retail theft is so bad in Victoria that it has to make difficult decisions about businesses. Protecting personnel and customersto contain You will not turn off the stores.

Frankly Victoria Government Crime Statistics: For the year ending in March (June quarter figures will be held later this month), the theft crimes recorded rose to 3,384 per 100,000 population – a 30% leap in 2023.

This partially, but only partially, was built on the return to the pandemic levels: the 2024 figure looked like a level of theft in Victoria in the years before the pandemi, but the March 2025 figure was the highest level of repetition from the pandemic levels and the highest level in existing records.

This is part of a wider model on property crimes: Victoria’s personal robbery increased by 17% by 17% in March and increased by 23.5%. The arson and material damage has also increased, but these crimes still show that the Federal Labor Party’s efforts to increase illegal tobacco wars on our streets are still a way of increasing the illegal tobacco wars.

The story is not so bad for other crimes. The attack has increased by 10% in ten years and sexual crimes reached their highest registered levels, but this may represent the desire to report sex crimes in response to taking complaints more seriously.

Drug crimes increased, but much below the average of most of the last decade. And instead of being guided by victims reports, drug trafficking and human trafficking, at the lowest registered levels in ten years, Victoria police think that the drug ban has less resources for our moronic obsession with a drug ban.

Remember, these are recorded crimes, ie after assessing what the police have been reported or identified. However, the data obtained from the victim reports show a similar leap in property crimes and a smaller increase in violence crimes in Victoria before filtering by the police.

A very different story in other states. In NSW, violent crime has been increasing in the last two years, but not property crimes. March 2025 nsw data Since 2023, 100,000 violence has increased per crime, but property crimes remain at the pandemic levels or slightly above – an impressive success that represents a downward change in the crime of property in NSW.

The increase in the rate of violence in NSW, at least partially, has increased in part of both sexual offenses – sexual assault by about 10% – and it is seen that the impact of the desire to report makes it difficult to evaluate the real incidence of domestic violence.

The number of murders in NSW, which was directed by the Gangland wars, where the Minns government could not stop, but where it was stable in the long run has increased. Personal robbery is now at the levels ten years ago. Breaking and entry is stable or down. Retail theft has increased slightly, but in 12 months until March, it has reached a level that represented only 3% growth in the last decade.

In Queensland in 2024 – the government Excellent crime data tool – illegal entry, theft and robbery rose to higher levels after the last ten years, but the rates actually fell from 2023 and the levels they were in the early 2000s remained below (and in Brisbane).

The crime of violence that Queensland has an undesirable award: The attack since the pandemi has fallen to a much higher level than the murder, although the murder has fallen to a significant extent, since 2000. The sexual crimes that emerged ten years ago have now returned to the levels seen in the early 2000s, but drug crimes are now for ten years.

In South Australia with data It was a little less useful“Theft from the shop” increased significantly in 2023 (Hello Inflation), but fell to June a year. All theft crimes fell until June throughout the year; The attacks rose slightly; The reported sexual crimes actually fell (the main category, the aggravated sexual assault, although a little increased) and the robbery fell significantly.

Inside Western AustraliaTheft has been decreasing at the lowest level over the years and the stolen levels decrease in ten years ago. Indeed, all real estate crimes in WA have not yet returned to pandemic levels, and this is based on directly reported crimes, not the proportion set to the population. Drug crimes also remain below pre -pandemic levels. However, both domestic violence and out -of -family attacks reached higher levels in 2024 and at the top of the history of sexual crimes.

Only in Victoria, the crime of property, and especially theft, rises at such dramatic levels – and only Victoria has an increase in violence crimes as it endures an increase in the crime of property of its citizens.

Perhaps there is no direct connection to the revelation of how deeply the established corruption comes from. Victoria government’s infrastructure programBut it is as if Melbourne is the criminal capital of Australia since the middle of 2025.