Crime Severity Index

 Is there any weight to the claims various municipalities alongside the City of North Battleford have made against the Crime Severity Index (CSI)? Tarah Hodgkinson, an assistant professor of criminology at Wilfried Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont. — who ran the City of North Battleford’s original public safety survey — thinks so, to a degree. […]

Crime in Canada decreased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic last year, with Regina and area leading the way. Crime in the Regina metropolitan area, which includes communities like Lumsden and Emerald Park, fell 27 percent in 2020 compared to 2019. The sharpest drop in the country. Regina also experienced a significant drop in its crime […]

2018 was a challenging year for crime in the city of Regina following the release of police-reported crime statistics. Results from the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics report demonstrate a rise in the city’s total crime rate and a number of other statistical categories when comparing last year’s number to 2017. The report stacks up […]