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Component of Statistics Canada catalogue no. 85-002-X
Juristat


Juristat Article



Police-reported crime
statistics in Canada, 2009


by Mia Dauvergne and John Turner

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Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2009: Highlights

 Police-reported crime in Canada continues to decline. Both the severity and the volume of crime
dropped in 2009, continuing the general decrease seen over the past decade.

 There were approximately 43,000 fewer crimes reported to police in 2009. Three property crimes
accounted for the majority of this drop: 17,000 fewer motor vehicle thefts, 10,000 fewer
mischief offences and 5,000 fewer break-ins.

 Canada’s Crime Severity Index (CSI), a measure of the seriousness of police-reported crime,
decreased 4% in 2009 and was 22% lower than in 1999. The crime rate, a measure of the
volume of crime reported to police, also dropped in 2009, down 3%. The crime rate was 17%
lower than a decade ago.

 Violent crime in Canada is also declining, but to a lesser extent than overall crime. Both the
violent Crime Severity Index and the violent crime rate declined slightly in 2009, down 1%. The
violent CSI dropped for the third consecutive year, and was 6% lower than a decade earlier, a
much smaller decline than for the overall CSI.

 Most violent crimes declined in 2009, including homicide, serious assaults, sexual assaults and
robbery. However, increases were reported in attempted murder, extortion, firearms offences
and criminal harassment.

 Police reported 610 homicides in 2009, 1 less than the previous year. Despite annual
fluctuations, the homicide rate has been relatively stable for the past decade and well below the
peak rate seen in the mid-1970s.

 Impaired driving offences increased for the third year in a row. Police reported 89,000 impaired
driving offences in 2009, an increase of 3% in the rate. About 2% of these offences were drug-
impaired driving.

 Drug offences declined 6%, mainly due to a 21% drop in cocaine offences. Cannabis offences,
which account for about two-thirds of all drug crimes, remained relatively stable in 2009.

 Data from a new youth Crime Severity Index show that youth crime severity has generally been
declining since 2001, including a 2% drop in 2009. However, while the youth violent CSI was
stable from the previous year; it was 10% higher than a decade earlier.

 Between 2008 and 2009, the CSI declined or remained stable in all provinces and territories with
the exception of small increases in Manitoba and Nunavut. The largest declines in crime severity
occurred in British Columbia and Alberta.

 The Northwest Territories and Nunavut continued to report the highest CSI values in the country.
Among the provinces, the highest CSI values were reported in Saskatchewan and Manitoba,
while the lowest were in Prince Edward Island, Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and
Labrador.

 Despite a 12% decrease, Regina reported the highest CSI among all census metropolitan areas
in 2009, followed by Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Kelowna. Toronto reported the third lowest CSI,
behind only Guelph and Québec.
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 Although crime was down in most areas of the country in 2009, some metropolitan areas did
show an increase in crime severity. The largest of these were in Saguenay, Greater Sudbury and
Kitchener.

 Manitoba reported the highest homicide rate among the provinces for the third consecutive year.
With 9 homicides in 2009, Abbotsford–Mission had the highest homicide rate among all 33
census metropolitan areas for the second year in a row.
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Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2009

by Mia Dauvergne and John Turner

In Canada, crime is measured using data collected by two Statistics Canada surveys: police-reported
data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey and victim-reported data through the
General Social Survey.

This report presents findings from the 2009 UCR Survey, an annual survey of all criminal incidents
known to, and substantiated by, Canadian police services. The survey collects data on about 200
individual criminal offences. These data conform to a nationally-approved set of common crime
categories and definitions and have been systematically reported by police services and submitted to
Statistics Canada each year since 1962. Counts for each offence are based on the most serious
offence in an incident.

The report examines trends in the severity and volume of both overall and violent crime at the
national, provincial/territorial and census metropolitan area levels. Changes in the rates of certain
offence types, including homicide, assault, sexual offences, robbery, break and enter, motor vehicle
theft, impaired driving and drug offences are presented. This report also provides information on
youth crime including, for the first time, trends in the severity of crime committed by youth. <