Table 2
Number and proportion of accused persons who had re-contact with police, by number of re-contacts, rural or urban area, and North-South region, provinces, 2014 to 2023

Table 2 Number and proportion of accused persons who had re-contact with police, by number of re-contacts, rural or urban area, and North-South region, provinces, 2014 to 2023
Table summary
The information is grouped by Number of subsequent contacts with police (appearing as row headers), Rural1, Urban1, North1, South1, Total, North1, South1 and Total, calculated using number, percent, number, percent, number, percent, number, percent, number, percent, number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Number of subsequent contacts with police Rural Table 2 Note 1 Urban Table 2 Note 1
North Table 2 Note 1 South Table 2 Note 1 Total North Table 2 Note 1 South Table 2 Note 1 Total
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
Note 1

Geographical region is based on the residential address of the accused at the time of the cohort (i.e., initial) contact in 2014. When address information for the accused person was missing or unknown, the address of the responding police service was used. It is possible that an accused person may have lived in both rural and urban, as well as North and South, areas over the nine-year follow-up period.

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Note: Reflects unique people, according to the number of times they came into contact with police for a criminal offence between 2014 and 2023, excluding the cohort (i.e., initial) offence. Urban areas are inside a census metropolitan area (CMA) or census agglomeration (CA) and rural areas are outside of CMAs and CMA or a CAs. A CMA or a CA is comprised of one or more adjacent municipalities centred on a population centre (known as the core). A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000, of which 50,000 or more must live in the core. A CA must have a core population of at least 10,000. To be included in the CMA or CA, adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the core, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA or CA may have more than one police service. The provincial South includes Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and the southern regions of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador. The provincial North comprises the northern regions of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador. Excludes data from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Canadian Police Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, and the Canadian Forces Military Police Group. Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some offences using municipal bylaws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. Accused persons may have had additional contacts with police in other years, or may have come into contact with police for another reason (e.g., as a victim of crime, or related to an incident for which they were not formally identified as an accused person). The initial contact with police in 2014 must have been in the provinces, but any re-contact was not limited to the provinces. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
No re-contact 9,163 23 26,909 39 36,072 33 8,295 35 131,406 43 139,701 43
Re-contact 30,244 77 41,954 61 72,198 67 15,609 65 173,335 57 188,944 57
One re-contact 4,523 11 10,042 15 14,565 13 3,318 14 43,610 14 46,928 14
Two to five re-contacts 9,071 23 14,744 21 23,815 22 5,286 22 61,308 20 66,594 20
Six to ten re-contacts 5,552 14 6,831 10 12,383 11 2,525 11 27,683 9 30,208 9
More than ten re-contacts 11,098 28 10,337 15 21,435 20 4,480 19 40,734 13 45,214 14
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