Winnipeg - One Great City...

[UkrainianGuy]

Reported crimes in Canada declined in 2008 and Manitoba led the way, despite having the highest homicide rate, according to Statistics Canada.

Nationally, both the traditional crime rate and the new Crime Severity Index (CSI) fell by five per cent, meaning that both the volume of police-reported crime and its severity decreased.

According to the report, across the country there were about 77,000 fewer reported crimes in 2008, compared with 2007, including 22,000 fewer break-ins and 20,000 fewer motor vehicle thefts.

The drop in Manitoba's CSI was 14 per cent and the CSI drop in Winnipeg was 19 per cent.

But news isn't all good for the province. Despite improvements in some areas, Winnipeg still has the second-highest homicide rate in the country, behind the combined centres of Abbotsford and Mission, B.C.

The highest homicide rates were in:

Abbotsford-Mission (4.7 per cent)
Winnipeg (4.1)
Regina (3.8)
Edmonton (3.4)
Kelowna, B.C. (3.4)
Calgary (2.9)
Vancouver (2.4)

With 103 homicides in 2008, Toronto had the most homicides of any census metropolitan area. However, taking population into account, Toronto's rate of 1.9 homicides per 100,000 was just slightly higher than the national average of 1.8.

In terms of provinces, Manitoba topped the list with 4.5 homicides per 100,000 people.

And despite a major drop in motor vehicle thefts of 44 per cent, Winnipeg still led the country in that crime category in 2008.

[Seth]

Anyone knows what's wrong with Winnipeg? Gang problems perhaps?

[sdonnell]

winnipeg? what the hell is wrong with kelowna, that is probably the smallest city by far, and like a summer vacation getaway

[UkrainianGuy]

not sure... same issues like every city I suppos..

[macka]

winnipeg has a lot of integration problems with the natives coming from bush reserves and not being able to assimilate into city life. This leads to alcohol and drug use, which is the tip of the iceberg for many problems which grow from it.

[tiramisu]

... and I thought it was because they kept driving into people in their stolen cars.

[cog]

Natives with knives.Had one working for me once,he was good but wouldn't show every couple of days,covered with scars.

[AlladdinSane]

Reported crimes in Canada declined in 2008...

...the volume of police-reported crime ...decreased.

...across the country there were about 77,000 fewer reported crimes in 2008, compared with 2007, including 22,000 fewer break-ins and 20,000 fewer motor vehicle thefts.



We, as a country, have obviously just stopped reporting crimes as the police are useless for anything other than writing traffic tickets and we realize it, so we figure, "why bother telling them?".

Crime is not on the decline.

[UkrainianGuy]

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[Bowlcut]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ogxZxu6cjM

Good answer.

[LIVEHARD]

winnipeg has a lot of integration problems with the natives coming from bush reserves and not being able to assimilate into city life. This leads to alcohol and drug use, which is the tip of the iceberg for many problems which grow from it.

God love you guys from the mid west but WINTERPEG is a shit hole

[INked]

Glad I moved out to the country,no indians no indian gangs,no ******s no ****** gangs just white people who farm and work for a living.That being said I still carry a 3 foot length of pipe in my truck,old habbits are hard to break but skulls are not!

[cog]

:)Are you putting two hands on that thing?You'll kill somebody.An old york db is perfect.

[LIVEHARD]

Glad I moved out to the country,no indians no indian gangs,no ******s no ****** gangs just white people who farm and work for a living.That being said I still carry a 3 foot length of pipe in my truck,old habbits are hard to break but skulls are not!

:flagC

[INked]

:)Are you putting two hands on that thing?You'll kill somebody.An old york db is perfect.Love a York dumbell!!Keep one in my pocket to throw at the ones who wittness the pipe and run away, kinda like an Irish boomarang!Oh and I see we are not allowed to use the " N " word anymore.........sad!
It's a "Red & White" world out here in farmland and I can live with that!

[Dryvrgrl]

we also are the slurpee capital and the obesidy capital of canada!!!... Fat people with slurpees steal cars and murder people!!

[baza]

You know you're a shitty little city when you make a big deal about winning your Slurpee Capital award every year. lol