Table 2
Police-reported firearm-related violent crime incidents, by most serious offence and clearance status, Canada, 2022
| Most serious offence | 2022 | 2021 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | percent | rate | percent change in rate from 2021 | Firearm-related crimes | Crimes not involving firearms | number | percent | rate | |
| percentage of incidents cleared by charge | |||||||||
| Homicides, other offences causing death and attempted murder | 760 | 40.5 | 2.0 | 5.8 | 50.7 | 77.6 | 705 | 41.5 | 1.9 |
| Sexual assault | 122 | 0.4 | 0.3 | -18.0 | 55.7 | 31.3 | 146 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Physical assault | 2,904 | 1.0 | 7.7 | 4.4 | 54.0 | 48.6 | 2,731 | 1.0 | 7.3 |
| Major assault | 2,453 | 3.0 | 6.5 | 5.0 | 51.1 | 60.6 | 2,294 | 2.9 | 6.2 |
| Common assault and other assault | 451 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 69.8 | 43.6 | 437 | 0.2 | 1.2 |
| Robbery | 3,735 | 16.7 | 9.8 | 24.0 | 44.1 | 39.3 | 2,958 | 15.6 | 7.9 |
| Firearm-specific violent offences | 4,642 | 100.0 | 12.2 | 5.2 | 40.3 | Note ...: not applicable | 4,332 | 100.0 | 11.6 |
| Pointing a firearm | 1,644 | 100.0 | 4.3 | 7.9 | 35.7 | Note ...: not applicable | 1,496 | 100.0 | 4.0 |
| Discharging a firearm with intent | 2,205 | 100.0 | 5.8 | 3.1 | 32.1 | Note ...: not applicable | 2,100 | 100.0 | 5.6 |
| Using a firearm in the commission of an offence | 793 | 100.0 | 2.1 | 5.8 | 73.0 | Note ...: not applicable | 736 | 100.0 | 2.0 |
| Hostage taking, kidnapping, forcible confinement, trafficking in persons | 204 | 4.5 | 0.5 | -11.4 | 72.1 | 73.3 | 226 | 5.3 | 0.6 |
| Extortion, threats and intimidation | 1,407 | 1.6 | 3.7 | 5.3 | 44.2 | 26.4 | 1,312 | 1.5 | 3.5 |
| Other violent crimes | 163 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 76.1 | 27.2 | 156 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Total violent offences | 13,937 | 2.8 | 36.7 | 8.9 | 46.2 | 40.3 | 12,566 | 2.6 | 33.7 |
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... not applicable Note: Firearm-related violent crimes include incidents where the most serious violation is a firearm-specific violent offence (pointing a firearm, discharging a firearm with intent, use of a firearm in the commission of an offence) and other violent crimes where the most serious weapon present in the incident was a firearm. The number of incidents represents the number of victims, in addition to incidents for which the police did not provide victim records. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based upon July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database). |
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