British Columbia’s crime rate rose in 2022, matching a pre-pandemic trend that lulled during the pandemic.
“The first year of the pandemic was marked by a decline in the overall volume and severity of police-reported crime, notably while lockdown restrictions were first implemented, driven by less non-violent crime. Before this drop, the CSI had been rising for five consecutive years beginning in 2015 ,” stated the report.
In 1998, B.C.’s index was 166.9 and the violent index was 132.5. Canada’s was 118.8 and 97.8, respectively. In Canada, the Violent CSI rose five per cent in 2022, as police reported 874 homicides, 78 more than the year before. B.C. recorded 30 more homicides in 2022 than in 2021. And, violent firearm offences increased for an eighth straight year, the report stated. Finally, sexual assaults rose three per cent, to 90 incidents per 100,000 people — a rate that has increased every year since 2014, except for 2020; Such high rates have not been seen since 1995.
“What I would highlight is the increase in fraud and cybercrime, the changing nature of property crime. There is no drastic change in car theft, auto crime or break and enters, but the big change is every day in our lives we get emails and phone calls from people attempting to defraud us. The people who run these organizations can send these messages to an infinite number of people and as a consequence some vulnerable people will step up and take the loss,” said Boyd.
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