By the numbers, the tide is starting to turn in Victoria's crime crisis.
Data released this week shows a 3.8 per cent per cent drop in the crime rate in the past year to June.
The flattening numbers tell Victorians that statistically, they are safer than they were 12 months ago. Whether Victorians feel safer is a separate question, and a critical one for Premier Ben Carroll.
Like Allan, Carroll has had a focus on crime — with no shortage of recent examples to show why Victorians are demanding effective solutions.
On the day he vowed to allow police to search people for weapons anywhere anytime if re-elected, a 18-year-old girl was allegedly stabbed repeatedly with a store-bought kitchen knife during a brawl in Melbourne's west.
Days later, three teenagers allegedly hit a female police officer with a stolen car, sending her several metres through the air in Ashwood.
On Monday, two teenagers and a young man were all stabbed during a botched marketplace meet-up in St Albans.
A group of young people were allegedly involved in the fatal bashing of grocer Van Viet Truong metres outside his own shop in Sunshine last month.
A month after being struck by his own car when a woman allegedly stole it from his Heidelberg driveway, a 68-year-old man died from his injuries in hospital.
The almost 4 per cent drop in crime would be cold comfort for those families not numbers.
Sentencing Advisory Council data released this week showed sentences for crimes such as murder and rape had gotten longer.