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Crime rate fell 17% in past decade: Stats Can report
In what has turned into a rite of summer in recent years, Statistics Canada has released data that again suggests the crime rate in the country continues to fall.
The annual police-reported crime statistics issued yesterday indicated drops in overall crimes, motor vehicle thefts and even violent offences.
The crime rate in the country in 2009 was 17% lower than a decade earlier. A relatively new indicator, the Crime Severity Index, which is a weighted average of criminal offences, is down 22% from the level in 1999.
“Overall, this is a good news report,” said Robert Gordon, director of the school of criminology at Simon Fraser University. “This has been a trend over the past 10 years,” he added.