Opioids, crime and alternate response: Saskatoon’s police chief looks back at 2022
Q: With respect to crime in the city, Saskatoon ranked six in Crime Severity Index in 2022, with violent crimes on the rise, 4,000 incidents in 2017 jumping to 4,500 incidents in 2021. How concerned are you about that trend?A: Well, you know, actually, the Crime Severity Index last year was the best policing that we’ve had as a community since we started measuring that way. So when you look at raw numbers like how many offences we’ve had, you have to realize that our city is growing as well.
A: I think what we’ve seen is that over the last decade, at least, the victimization rates, you know, which is calculated based on population, those are decreasing. Unfortunately, there’s still a lot of challenges for us, including violent crime challenges. But we are doing a good job, I think, in trending in the right direction.A: Well, we’re doing a sort of a resource review at the beginning of 2023 to sort of look down the road at what we’re going to need for policing resources.
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