Kelowna Has Highest Police-Reported Crime Rate
Police-reported Crime Rates in Canada, 1962 to 2012 chart courtesy Stats Can
Prince George, BC – Kelowna has the highest police-reported crime rate in the country, according to the latest release from Statistics Canada.
The crime rate in the Okanagan city increased six-percent in 2012, compared to 2011 in census metropolitan areas. Regina ranked second after holding the unenviable top spot for the previous four years, after its crime rate fell 10-percent from 2011. Toronto had the lowest rate of all metropolitan areas.
A breakdown of smaller census areas, including Prince George, is not yet available from the national agency. For 2011, Prince George ranked 14th out of 281 communities on the crime severity index, down from 11th ranking in the previous year.
Across the country, the homicide rate was the lowest in more than 40 years – with 543 homicides in 2012, 55 fewer than 2011. And the Stats Can report says 2012 continued the downward trend in police-reported crimes across the country with 36-thousand fewer criminal incidents. That’s down 3-percent from the year before and is the lowest level since 1972.
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Kelowna is a s&%t show in the summer months for the police due to a huge transient population.
“the homicide rate was the lowest in more than 40 years – with 543 homicides in 2012, 55 fewer than 2011”
I wonder how that compares to attempted homicides? Were there fewer of those as well or were people less successful at murdering their targets? ;-)
Thefts from vehicles, Break and Enters to residences and lots of CDSA related files, Gus.
What’s next..the next royal baby will be named Prince Kelowna. Lol
From the 2011 stat re country wide homicides: the number of homicides in Canada rose to 598 in 2011, 44 more than the previous year”
SO it looks like 2011 was a bit of a spike, to say the least. Now we are back to “normal”. Always good to have a wider range of stats available when looking for trends.
is the lower homicide rate due to better life saving techniques??
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Quite possibly a factor, especially since the stats indicate that in Canada homicides are moving from gun to knife related altercations.
No worries, Christy will take care of the problem.
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