BC’s Crime Severity Index (CSI) is the lowest among all the western provinces at 93.6.
“Just as a comparison when we look at Alberta your neighboring province it came in at 102.5, it’s on the lower-end in terms of the western provinces,” says Kong.
A decline in two areas is mostly responsible for the 1% year-over-year decrease Kong says.
“In terms of robbery, we saw a 20% decrease in the rate of robbery and in terms of break and enters we saw a decrease of 3%.”
BC recorded 87 homicides in 2016, down from 97 a year earlier.
Just over 1,650 cases of criminal harassment were reported by provincial police in 2016.
That’s a decline of almost 18% from 2015 where almost 2,000 of those incidents were listed.
On the flip side, the RCMP reported 2,756 child pornography offenses in BC last year compared to just 1,608 in 2015.
Part of the increase is due to a project coordinated by the British Columbia Integrated Child Exploitation Unit.
The CSI in Canada is much lower at 71.
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