Police-reported crime in Canada has increased for the second year in a row, with violent crime reaching its highest point since 2007.
In a report released Thursday, Statistics Canada researchers found that violent crime rose by five per cent in 2022 — after a six per cent increase in 2021 — using the Crime Severity Index (CSI), one of the tools the federal agency uses to measure crime and track the volume and severity of what’s reported.
The increase may be a sign that crime is returning to an upward trend that researchers observed before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, said Warren Silver, an analyst with
