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Table 5
Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime, by violation, Canada, 2020 and 2021

Table 5
Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime, by violation, Canada, 2020 and 2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime. The information is grouped by Violation (appearing as row headers), 2021 and 2020, calculated using number, percent, rate and percent change in rate, 2021 versus 2020 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Violation	2021				2020
Violation	number	percent^{Table 5 Note 1}	rate^{Table 5 Note 2}	percent change in rate, 2021 versus 2020	number	percent^{Table 5 Note 1}	rate^{Table 5 Note 2}
Homicide and other violations causing death and attempted murder	551	45.4	1.9	-5.1	577	44.5	2.0
Sexual assaults and sexual violations against children^{Table 5 Note 3}	89	0.3	0.3	12.0	79	0.3	0.3
Physical assaults	2,474	1.2	8.4	3.4	2,379	1.2	8.2
Major assaults (assault levels 2 and 3)	1,992	3.4	6.8	4.0	1,904	3.5	6.5
Common assault (level 1) and other assaults	482	0.3	1.6	0.9	475	0.3	1.6
Robbery	2,099	16.2	7.2	-15.6	2,472	18.4	8.5
Uttering threats	732	2.0	2.5	-8.6	796	2.2	2.7
Firearm-specific violent offences^{Table 5 Note 4}	1,837	99.4	6.3	-3.4	1,891	99.3	6.5
Pointing a firearm^{Table 5 Note 4}	899	98.8	3.1	-2.2	914	98.7	3.1
Discharging a firearm with intent^{Table 5 Note 4}	729	99.9	2.5	-8.5	792	99.9	2.7
Use of a firearm in the commission of an offence	209	100.0	0.7	12.3	185	100.0	0.6
Other violent crime	265	1.0	0.9	-2.4	270	1.1	0.9
Total, all violent offences	8,047	2.6	27.4	-5.5	8,464	2.8	29.0
Note 1 Represents the proportion of incidents that were firearm-related as a percentage of all victims of each offence, excluding incidents where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Rates are calculated as the number of victims per 100,000 population using revised July 1 population estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Sexual violations against children include sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, luring a child via telecommunications/agreement or arrangement, making sexually explicit material available to a child for the purpose of facilitating sexual offences against children/youth, and the offences of parent or guardian procuring sexual activity, householder permitting prohibited sexual activity, agreement or arrangement of a sexual offence against a child, and bestiality in the presence of or inciting a child (s. 160(3)). Incidents of child pornography are not included in the category of sexual violations against children. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Percent calculation includes a small number of violations where the most serious weapon present was miscoded. Return to note 4 referrer Note: Firearm-related crime is defined as victims of violent crime reported by police in incidents where a firearm was present. Violation represents the most serious violation against the victim. Excludes Quebec due to a large proportion of cases where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown. Excludes data for the Saint John Police Service due to data quality concerns. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database).

Date modified:: 2022-12-12