Crime is falling, but is higher here than many other Canadian cities

• Metro Vancouver continues to have the dubious distinction of the highest rate of violent crimes when compared to Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa.
  Statistics Canada, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey 2009
• Property crime has been decreasing since 1998, but continues to be considerably higher in Vancouver than other Canadian cities including Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa.
  Statistics Canada, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey 2009

Youth crime rate on the rise

• While the overall number of actual crimes is down, the youth violent crime rate rose 2% here from 2008 to 2009.
  Statistics Canada

Surge in hate crimes

• Our hate crime rate nearly doubled from 2006 to 2008 to 6 incidents per 100,000 people, during a time when hate crimes declined in other major Canadian urban regions.
  Hate crimes based on sexual orientation were much more frequent in Vancouver and Toronto in 2008 – metro Vancouver had 34 such crimes and Toronto reported 43 while Ottawa, Montreal and Calgary were all in the single digits.
  Statistics Canada

Violent crime is down, property crime is down, less cars are being stolen, and we have more police officers.

• Violence decreased 12% from 2006 to 2009, to 14 acts of violence for every 1,000 people, but we are still the most violent major Canadian city.
• Gang-related shootings are down 69% in the City of Vancouver for the first half of this year, with only 4 shots fired.
  Vancouver Police Department, Investigation Division, July 2010
• Vehicle theft has dropped 53% from 1999 to 2008.
  British Columbia Crime Trends 1999-2008