Manitoba's crime rate rises, 2nd worst among provinces
Crime rate went up five per cent from 2014 to 2015, according to Statistics Canada
Manitoba still ranks near the top when it comes to crime rates across Canada.
Manitoba once again boasts the second-highest crime rate among provinces, according to Statistics Canada data released on Wednesday.
Only Saskatchewan had a higher crime rate.
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The 2015 crime rate for Manitoba was 8,161 crimes per 100,000 people. Saskatchewan's number is 11,178.
The rate for all of Canada was 5,198.
Manitoba's crime severity index also went up in 2015, increasing eight per cent over 2014.
Nationally, the crime severity index, which measures the volume and severity of police-reported crime, grew five per cent in 2015.
The rise was primarily a result of more incidents of fraud (up 15 per cent), homicide (up 15 per cent), robbery (up five per cent) and break-and-enter (up four per cent), Statistics Canada reported. A significant increase in crimes in Alberta and smaller increases in British Columbia, Ontario and Saskatchewan fuelled the higher national numbers.
This marks the first rise in police-reported crime in 12 years, but the crime severity index is still 31 per cent lower than a decade earlier, Statistics Canada reported.
Generally, Canada's crime level has been on a downward trend since the early 1990s, with the only other increase reported in 2003.
The largest increases were reported in Alberta (18 per cent), New Brunswick (12 per cent), the Northwest Territories (10 per cent) and Saskatchewan (10 per cent). Since the inception of the crime severity index in 1998, there have been only three other occasions when a provincial increase of 10 per cent or more was seen, Statistics Canada said.
Reported criminal violations, Manitoba, 1998-2015
- 1998 — 131,558.
- 1999 — 132,849.
- 2000 — 134,399.
- 2001 — 141,768.
- 2002 — 141,740.
- 2003 — 156,550.
- 2004 — 159,957.
- 2005 — 148,186.
- 2006 — 145,847.
- 2007 — 139,145.
- 2008 — 128,193.
- 2009 — 137,283.
- 2010 — 130,027.
- 2011 — 121,719.
- 2012 — 121,815.
- 2013 — 110,361.
- 2014 — 107,589.
- 2015 — 113,643.