By Adam Berls

crime statistics

Police-reported crime up 2% in 2023

Jul 29, 2024 | 2:44 PM

PRINCE GEORGE — National crime statistics in Canada for 2023 have been released and the volume and severity of police-reported crime in Canada, which is measured by the Crime Severity Index (CSI), has increased for the third consecutive year, up 2% in 2023.

Large shifts in certain types of crime led to an increase in the non-violent crime, such as fraud and shoplifting, while Violent crime numbers remained virtually unchanged. For the 2023 set of statistics, the most dangerous cities in Canada list was omitted, something that Councillor Trudy Klassen is glad to see gone.

“Government is supposed to be there to help people, but by ranking cities against each other to show who was the most dangerous city in Canada that was hurting everyone and it wasn’t helping anyone, so it’s a huge relief.” – Councillor Trudy Klassen, City of Prince George

The CSI is one of several measures of crime in Canada. It looks at both the volume and the severity of crime, while the conventional crime rate measures only the volume of crime. In 2023, the police-reported crime rate increased 3% from a year earlier to 5,843 incidents per 100,000 population.

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Police reported 778 homicides in 2023, 104 fewer than a year earlier. The homicide rate declined 14%, from 2.27 homicides per 100,000 population in 2022 to 1.94 in 2023.

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