{"id":818722,"date":"2026-07-22T14:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818722\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:11:23","slug":"canada-crime-rate-severity-down-in-most-recent-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818722\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada crime rate, severity down in most recent data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says both the crime rate and the severity of crimes decreased in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The agency says Canada\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/260722\/dq260722a-eng.htm\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/260722\/dq260722a-eng.htm\">crime severity index<\/a> dropped five per cent last year for the second annual decline in a row, after the index increased over the previous eight years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The conventional crime rate, which tracks the volume of crimes regardless of their severity, also edged down two per cent in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">StatCan says the reduction in the crime severity index was driven by the rate of break-and-enter cases falling for a third year in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The index also reported reductions in the national rate of homicides, motor vehicle thefts and acts of extortion, while incidents of shoplifting increased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">StatCan says fraud was down in 2025, but the rate of fraud cases is still 61 per cent higher than in 2015, reflecting a surge in reported cases over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 22, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says both the crime rate and the severity of crimes decreased in 2025. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,713,47,44],"class_list":["post-818722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-justice","tag-national","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}