Latest figures indicate that Victoria is Australia's most violent state, registering the most homicidal deaths in comparison to the country's five other states.
There were 185 homicides, which include murder and manslaughter. Of those, 124 happened in Melbourne - two more than the total homicides for all of NSW.
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Deakin University criminologist Ian Warren says the police statistics don't tell the full story.
On the one hand, the figures are compromised by different reporting protocols between the states.
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At odds with the police figures, which represent the crime-related workload each state carries, are new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics dealing with victimisation and perceptions of crime. They show that the majority of crime actually went unreported last year.
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"The real issue is that most crime is going unreported, and any government is making flawed decisions based on flawed data if they rely solely on crime statistics ... They're left in the dark as to where resources should be allocated."
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