Crime Statistics
Why The Need To Move While crime in the north end is nothing new, StatsCan says that Winnipeg, as a whole, is number one in the nation for crime. Several recent reports in the The Winnipeg Free Press and The Winnipeg Sun both report on this trend. While the crime rate, country-wide, is at a 25 year low in 2006, Winnipeg has been ranked as the first among Canada's nine largest cities in violent crime, property crime and was ranked second when it came to break-ins. It is reported that "Disaffected youth can find a home in a gang and make money, and that's the fundamental thing that we have to fight." The Winnipeg Sun Thursday July 2007 "Peg Crime Capital". Where there is poverty there are gangs, where there are gangs, there is prostitution, drugs, violence. The North end or the core-area (area surrounding N.A.C.M.), is the central locale for all of these things. Many reports, all reporting the same thing: violence, gang activities, shootings, death.
According to research done by Robin Fitzgerald, Michael Wisner and Josee Savoie, the neighborhoods surrounding N.A.C.M.'s current location tells, in statistical form, what is already well knwn, and what is being reported about the area: an extraordinarily high amount of crime for the population. Following is an excerpt from "Neighborhood Characteristics and the distribution of crime of Winnipeg": High-need neighborhoods-In this appendix, selected crime (Table 4) are reported for the 30 highest-need NCA (NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERIZATION AREAS) and as an average across the 175 Winnipeg NCAs examined in this study. High-need NCAs were selected based on their socioeconomic disadvantage ranking. Socio-economic disadvantage is a composite variable derived from five neighborhood characteristics including percent receiving government transfer payments, percent aged 20 years and older without a secondary school certificate, percent in private households with low income in 2000, unemployment rate for population aged 15 and older, and median household income in $1,000s" TABLE 4 Selected offence types for highest-need Neighborhood Characterization Areas, Winnipeg 2001. Table has been reduced to show areas directly around N.A.C.M. (highlighted in light grey), and those not in the core-area. Table 4
