Public safety crime dashboards

Crime statistics are used to identify trends, to make decisions about how to use resources, and to determine how enforcement and prevention initiatives are working.

The public safety crime dashboard provides police-reported crime information and the crime severity index.

Information from the dashboard is sourced from Statistics Canada.

You will be able to see information on different violation categories including:

• violations against persons
• violations against property
• criminal code traffic violations
• other criminal code violations
• drug violations

Information can be broken down and filtered by:

• police force
• year
• violation type

Sources:

Table: 35-10-0178-01 (formerly CANSIM 252-0075) Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, police services in the Atlantic provinces (statcan.gc.ca)

Table: 35-10-0186-01 (formerly CANSIM 252-0083) Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services in the Atlantic provinces (statcan.gc.ca)

The Year-to-Date Crime Dashboard provides a monthly update on crimes in New Brunswick.

Crimes can be filtered by municipal police force and by RCMP detachment. The data is based on information from the records management systems of municipal police forces and RCMP and are subject to change based on the dynamic nature of police investigations.

The dashboard shows the number of crimes by category (Crimes Against People, Crimes against Property, Drug Violations, Other Criminal Code Violations, and Traffic Violations).

Year-to-date summary statistics are subject to change due to reasons such as:

• late reporting of crime incidents
• reclassification of Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) offences
• reclassification of an offence while an investigation is ongoing

Methods of counting

Some statistics are reported using the “most serious offence method” and others use the “all violations method.” Statistics Canada generally uses the “UCR Aggregate Survey” scoring rules, whereby only the Most Serious Offence (MSO) occurring in an incident is counted. The year-to-date crime dashboard also uses the “most serious offence” method.

Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey

The UCR Survey was designed to produce an indicator on the incidence of crime in Canadian society and its characteristics.

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