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Moving upstream

Rethinking crime prevention at the municipal level

by MUNGER F
Published in October 2017 - Page 25

By most standards, Canada is a pretty safe country. And, Canada is continuing to get safer, as the national crime rate has been decreasing since the 1990s, with a small increase in 2003 and 2015.1 The level of safety in communities and cities becomes clear when compared to other countries. In Canada, we often compare ourselves to the U.S. Overall, the U.S. and Canada have very different crime rates. For example, the homicide rate in

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