The crime severity index in B.C. has gone up four per cent since last year, according to data from Statistics Canada, with the Kelowna, B.C., census metropolitan area (CMA) having the second highest crime severity rating in the country.
The crime severity index is a number generated by Statistics Canada. It combines both the number of police-reported crime incidents per 100,000 people along with how severe the crimes were.
It’s the second straight year that Kelowna has topped the charts in crime rankings. Not only does it have the second-highest crime severity index, it also has the highest crime rate out of Canada’s 34
