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English: Police-reported crime in Canada, 2023 In 2023, there were 778 victims of homicide, 104 fewer than in 2022. Gang-related homicides continued to account for about one-quarter (22%) of all homicides; 78% of these were committed with a firearm, most often a handgun.
Note: The rate columns can be sorted in ascending or descending order. Sort the province/territory column to return to alphabetical order. Rates are calculated per 100,000 inhabitants per year and sorted by population (note that homicide rates fluctuate a lot for areas with low population).
According to Statistics Canada data from 2016, police reported 611 homicides across Canada in 2016, a rate of 1.68 per 100,000 people. [8] Canada's national homicide rate 2017 was the highest it's been in a decade, Statistics Canada says, because of a spike in gang-related violence and shootings.
Here is a comparison of the crime statistics from 2022 to 2023, in order of most frequently reported to least: Disorderly conduct decreased by 7.6% (787 in 2023, 847 in 2022)
Official numbers are considerably lower. Official 2018 statistics show only 46 deaths in police custody and 24 deaths of people in police/judicial remand and an additional 21 civilian killed during police operations for a total of 91 nationally. See Table 16A and 16B.4 of Official Govt. of India publication: Crime in India 2018 [48] [49] Australia
Police fired a bean bag gun at Du, and then fired shots at Du, killing him. [209] [210] [211] 2014-12-27 Woods, Naverone (23) British Columbia Police were called to a Safeway store in response to reports of a man with a knife outside the store. The man was reportedly stabbing himself and advanced towards officers.
In 2023, a Criminal Intelligence Service Canada report stated that organized crime groups are at play, with 63 in Ontario and Quebec alone. [168] The majority of the cars are transported to the Port of Montreal where they are then shipped overseas to Africa, the Middle East and Asia for resale.
Crime statistics refer to systematic, quantitative results about crime, as opposed to crime news or anecdotes. Notably, crime statistics can be the result of two rather different processes: scientific research, such as criminological studies, victimisation surveys; official figures, such as published by the police, prosecution, courts, and prisons.