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Justice
Crime rates, policing, courts, incarceration. The data with the methodology caveats stated up front, because the numbers in this category are easy to misread.
Fraud used to be solved like a violent crime. Now it almost never is.
In 1998, Canadian police cleared 60% of reported frauds — on par with a sexual assault that year. By 2024, that number is 10.6%, the largest decline of the 17 major offences we examined, against a backdrop where the national violent-crime clearance rate just hit its lowest point in 27 years of data.
Extortion has more than quadrupled in Canada since 2000 — and in Peel it has risen tenfold
Extortion is up 354% since 2000 while robbery was halved and attempted murder hit a 28-year low. It has come off its 2023 peak nationally but stays concentrated in B.C.'s Fraser Valley (Abbotsford 88) and in Peel, where it rose from 3.4 to 34 per 100,000 and keeps climbing.
Canada's most violent cities are not its biggest ones
Chilliwack, Thunder Bay and Kamloops top the list; Toronto ranks 33rd of 40, Ottawa-Gatineau 37th. Property crime has fallen in every metro with a full record, even where violent crime has climbed back. Search and sort all 40 metros. From table 35-10-0177-01, released 22 July 2026.
More cops, less crime? Not in Canadian cities.
Calgary spends roughly a third less per resident on policing than Montréal, and has less violent crime to show for it. Across 29 major Canadian metropolitan areas, the correlation between officers per 100,000 residents and the violent Crime Severity Index is essentially zero. Built from the 2025 Police Administration Survey, released Wednesday.
The 987 — what Ontario's 2024 police use-of-force data on youth says
Black youth 6.3× their population share. Middle Eastern 4.4×. Indigenous 1.7×. The four objections that survive scrutiny, and what the chart can and can't tell you.