“They cherry-picked data and did not tell Queenslanders the full picture of crime,” she said.
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Police data has shown a decrease in youth crime, with then-Labor police minister Mark Ryan touting a 6.7 per cent year-on-year reduction in June.
Gerber said the police data included cautions, whereas the figures she released on Sunday were “proven offences” provided by the Department of Youth Justice.
“For the last 10 years, the former government, the Labor government, has stood up and told Queenslanders that youth crime is going down,” she said.
“I doubt they will be honest with Queenslanders now. On the eve of an election, they lied to Queenslanders so they could cling on to power.”
Opposition treasury spokeswoman Shannon Fentiman – a former attorney-general in the erstwhile Labor government – accused Gerber of her own dishonest use of data.
“Several years ago, those criminals were caught. They’ve now been charged and their matters are finalised before the court,” she said.
“So these aren’t recent figures, as I understand, and it doesn’t really give a current picture of where we’re at with crime in Queensland.”
In the days after the election, Opposition Leader Steven Miles said the Crisafulli government “clearly [had] a mandate” to pass its youth crime legislation.
But on Sunday, Fentiman said that did not mean Labor would support the bill.
“What they had in the election was a slogan – having a bill before the parliament is very different,” she said.
“David Crisafulli said those laws were ready. I would urge him to release it so that the community can see those laws and legal experts can see those laws.
“We want to see the bill, we don’t have the detail before us yet.”
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