crime rates
Too many cops?
The crime rate is down but police forces are growing. We’re poorer as a result, but not necessarily any safer.
The worst of the west
Drugs plus gangs equal the top crime cities in Canada
Safety in numbers?
Why do Canada’s most populous provinces—Quebec and Ontario—boast so many of its safest cities?
About those plummeting crime rates…
“We’re tops for property crime,” the Abbotsford Times lamented earlier this week, reacting to the latest crime numbers from Statistics Canada. Seems like something a city of just 130,000 people might justifiably worry about. But perhaps that’s what set Jeffrey Simpson off yesterday: