Police-reported crime is on the rise again, with violent crime at its highest since 2007 – Vanessa Balintec (CBC News) / July 27, 2023
Statistics Canada report shows country returning to levels seen before pandemic
Police-reported crime in Canada has increased for the second year in a row, with violent crime reaching its highest point since 2007.
In a report released Thursday, Statistics Canada researchers found that violent crime rose by five per cent in 2022 — after a six per cent increase in 2021 — using the Crime Severity Index (CSI), one of the tools the federal agency uses to measure crime and track the volume and severity of what’s reported.
The increase may be a sign that crime is returning to an upward trend that researchers observed before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, said Warren Silver, an analyst with Statistics Canada.
“During the pandemic, because of lockdown restrictions, a lot of crime was reduced or went down — and a lot of that was driven by non-violent crime,” he said.
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