In 2019, Prince George saw a 60.6 per cent increase in Criminal Code offences and a nearly 55 per cent increase in drug offences, despite cannabis becoming legal in 2018.
Prince George saw a nearly 80 per cent increase in violent crime in 2019, Statistics Canada and Ministry of Public Safety data shows, and while crime has declined in Prince George since then, it has not returned to the pre-2019 level.
In 2020, the city saw 18,237 Criminal Code offences and 775 drug offences. The city’s Crime Severity Index for the year was 227.03. A Citizen analysis of 24 years of data, from 1998 to 2021, shows that crime across B.C. began trending down in the early 2000s and leveled out at a new, lower level around 2013-14 .
DIFFERENT CITIES, DIFFERENT PATHS In a previous story, the Citizen reported that Prince George has the highest average Crime Severity Index among B.C.’s 20 largest municipalities, based on 24 years of Statistics Canada data from 1998 to 2021.
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