Lethbridge crime on the decline, according to annual Statistics Canada report

Since 2019, Lethbridge has had the highest rate of severe crime of any Canadian city but 2022 numbers released by Statistics Canada tell a new tale. The city dropped from first to third on Statistics Canada's annual Crime Severity Index report, or CSI. It calculates the volume and seriousness of crimes in a community. The decline includes an eight per cent decrease in crime severity and a five per cent drop in crime rate in 2022. "As the crime and CSI is increasing across the country and in the