Long-term police data shows the Northern Territory is dealing with record levels of violence, from regional towns to its capital city.
Violent assaults in the Northern Territory have hit their highest rate in at least 15 years, an analysis of long-term NT Police data reveals, as repeat victims consider packing up and leaving the jurisdiction.Residents and business owners are growing increasingly concerned for their safetyTerritory-wide, theshow assaults over the past 12 months are up by 88 per cent from 2009 — up by nearly 55 per cent in Darwin, and a whopping 148 per cent in Alice Springs.
According to the data, there have been 10,231 assaults across the territory in the 12 months to January 2023, compared with 5,419 in 2009, marking a record high since the data began. More than a dozen residents who spoke to the ABC, on and off the record, said they'd recently considered leaving the NT due to crime and its direct impact on their lives.
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