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Victim numbers in several key categories of crime featured in the LNP’s election campaign fell last year to the lowest point since 2021, while sexual assaults hit a record high, new data shows.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics released 2024 recorded crime victim data on Wednesday, which showed 289,449 people were the victims of nine categories of offences across 2024.

While assault and sexual assault victim numbers, largely linked to domestic violence, saw annual increases of 5 and 11 per cent respectively, other crimes typically linked to youth-offending fell.

During an election debate last year, then-opposition leader David Crisafulli pledged to resign as premier if he could not reduce victim-of-crime numbers. Credit: Dan Peled / Brisbane Times

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