This city has been named as one of Canada’s most dangerous places to live by a national magazine, but overall Thunder Bay appears to have improved over 2014.
Maclean’s Magazine recently released it Most Dangerous Places to Live in Canada issue, which featured Thunder Bay as eighth worst for violence.
Rampant robberies appears to be the city’s biggest issue, according to the news magazine. Thunder Bay ranked second worst among other Canadian cities in that category, trailing only Winnipeg.
Thunder Bay is said to be the 10th worst for sexual assaults, and fifth worst for aggravated assaults.
The statistics do not come as a big surprise. The Maclean’s calculations came from the 2015 numbers as reported by Statistics Canada recently. Those numbers saw Thunder Bay’s crime rate drop somewhat.
“For us in 2015 compared to 2014, there were at least 30 or 40 more cases of robberies that were occurring,” said Thunder Bay Police Service spokesman Chris Adams following the release of those crime statistics in late July.
“These were cases that were sometimes very minor to sometimes more dramatic.”
The city’s overall crime rate, the number of police-reported criminal offences per 100,000 population, declined by six per cent in 2015 compared to 2014.
These statistics do not include any data accumulated in 2016.
The title of most dangerous city was given to Grande Prairie, Alta., which topped all three major crime and drug categories.
Thunder Bay actually finished outside the top 10 for overall crime.
(With files from TBT News)
