Prince George’s Crime Ranking Expected to Slip Some
Thursday, December 6, 2012 @ 12:10 PM
Priince George, B.C. – The City of Prince George may not be the homicide capital of Canada , but the latest rankings for crime severity put this city in the top ten of when it comes to several areas of criminal activity.
Macleans magazine had named Prince George the most dangerous City in Canada for two years running, and the latest report puts Prince George high on the list again.
The initial report only lists the top 15 cities for each of the following crimes:
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Crime
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#1 Ranked City in Canada
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Prince George Ranking
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Homicide
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Red Deer Alberta
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Not in top 15 ( there were no homicides in Prince George in 2011)
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Sexual Assault
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Belleville Ontario
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4th
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Aggravated Assault
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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8th
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Robbery
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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14th
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Break and Enter
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Shawinigan Quebec
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3rd
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Motor Vehicle Theft
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Joliette Quebec
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9th
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Impaired Driving
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Grande Prairie Alberta
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5th
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Cannabis Possession
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New Westminster B.C.
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4th
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Prince George Mayor Shari Green and Prince George RCMP detachment Superintendent Eric Stubbs will be meeting with media this afternoon to go over the numbers.
Comments
I wonder what happened in Red Deer to make it the homocide capital?? I also wonder if the number of drunks and druggies relates to our rating?
Cannabis possession? Move to Washington State and drop some more of our tax base. ;-)
You know, those people in Belleville need to get some cannabis and their sexual assault rate will go down … *s*
Red Deer? Isn’t that one of the popular places for PG residents to move to? Got to make it look like home …..
Seriously, the thing about small towns is that the rate fluctuates greatly due to the low sample numbers. So, lots of relatively high peaks and low valleys.
1 homicide in a town of 2,000 immediately creates a rate of 1/2,000. One in a city of 80,000 is a rate of 1/80,000
While there are the same number of homicides in each community, the rate of the small town is 40 times as high as the larger city.
Right you are Gus, Prince George will continue to place high on this list due to the size of Prince George relative to the size of many of the other Cities we are compared against. The numbers often skew to make the crime rates appear higher in smaller areas.
I certainly don’t feel remotely unsafe living here in PG compared to Kamloops or Kelowna.
Would be interesting to see metro Vancouver taken as a whole instead of individual towns. No boundaries between towns down there anymore,it is just one big gross area of humanity.
Not sure how ranking 4th in cannabis possession makes us a dangerous place. I don’t see the danger in eating Doritos while staring at the ceiling. :)
The prevalence of sexual assualt in this community is frightening and embrassing – and this is not just a problem for drug and gang circles. Women and children in Prince George are the victimes of violence far too often, and no blaming of Macleans with improve that. Kudos to the RCMP for bringing in a special officer to deal with domestic assualt. I hope that helps improve the situation, but there is still more work to be done.
So men don’t count?
Sorry for adding to the stats last year, This year i promise to be a good boy.
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