City Ranks 9th In Country For Violent Crimes
Prince George, BC – While the City of Prince George has held pat at 14th in the country on the Crime Severity Index, its ranking in terms of violent crimes has worsened…
In a report released today by Statistics Canada into police-reported crimes in 2012, the city is now rated 9th in the country, compared to 14th last year in communities with a population greater than 10-thousand. Violent crimes include homicide, sexual assaults, and robberies. As far as non-violent crimes, the city improved from 16th in 2011, to 20th last year.
Thompson, Manitoba finds itself ranked number one on the violent crime CSI, while North Battleford, Saskatchewan is number one on the overall CSI. Saskatchewan reported the largest decrease in crime over the course of the year, but still has the highest crime rate among all the provinces.
In 2012, the number of police-reported crimes dropped 3-percent over the previous year, as did the Crime Severity Index which measures the seriousness of those calls.
Comments
Does this mean we are no longer the most violent city in Canada?
Top ten is still not too bad ;-)
Somewhat dubious distinction.
Let’s GO PG, Let’s GO! Don’t make us resort to only being #1 for potholes!
Okay, the stats are now coming home to roost. How should we be interpreting them?
Well, for me it is clear. The City got more violent in 2012, when people discovered that the new City Council and Mayor that they had voted in at the end of 2011 were not as effective as people expected them to be.
In fact, there was a move by some from merely being perpetrators of non-violent crime to violent crime.
In fact, when they started to see the palace that the RCMP were going to be getting go up, they got downright mad.
Don’t we just love statistics? …… so many ways to interpret them …. ;-)
=========================================
So maybe someone can tell me how these stats on violent crime relate to all those efforts by the several RCMP integrated crime units that I seem to recall hearing about on this site and elsewhere. This is, after all, a lagging indicator of their effectiveness.
I wonder when we will be hearing from the superintendent for his interpretation of the stats on violent crimes when compared to the part of their operations directed to reduce violent crime?
Any bets he will want more money?
Will want more money and more officers ! Efficiency is not a concept the RCMP embraces as there is unlimited tax dollars ! They need to get out from behind the computers !
Where do we rate for political crimes??!!
Comments for this article are closed.