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Statistical Portrait of Crime in 2024 in the Greater Montréal Area

The ICPC is releasing a statistical portrait of crime in 2024 for the Greater Montréal Area. Based on verified police data from the ministère de la Sécurité publique du Québec (Québec Ministry of Public Security) through the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (DUC 2.2), this document aims to inform and support decision‑making by municipal, community, and institutional stakeholders as they work to align policies and interventions with local territorial and social realities.

Produced with the support of the ministère de la Sécurité publique du Québec (Québec Ministry of Public Security) and the City of Montréal, the report provides an assessment of crime against the person as well as property crime for the year 2024, and places these results within a multi‑year trend perspective covering 2018 to 2024.

This quantitative analysis focuses on crime against the person (offences that can cause death, sexual offences, assault, offences involving deprivation of liberty, threats, acts of violence, and offences related to procuring and the purchase of sexual services) as well as property crime (arson, breaking and entering, theft, possession of stolen goods, fraud, and mischief).

In 2024, the agglomeration recorded 85,710 criminal incidents, of which property crime accounted for 66% (56,159 incidents) and crime against the person for 34% (29,551 incidents). The corresponding rates were 28 per 1,000 inhabitants (property) and 14.7 per 1,000 (violent).

Several key findings can be drawn from the analysis:

  • Diverging trends. Since 2018, crime against the person has risen by 60.2%, with assault remaining the predominant category in 2024. In contrast, property crime increased overall during the period, with a marked increase of 34.7% between 2021 and 2023, followed by a 10.4% decrease in 2024 compared with 2023.
  • Spatial analysis. Certain sectors characterized by high urban mobility and a diversity of uses show higher rates. Interpreting these results requires a nuanced approach that incorporates daily movement patterns and the high level of activity generated by major transport hubs and leisure areas. In this context, and given the importance of mobility patterns, the relationship between population‑level risk factors and the number of recorded incidents in these sectors must be interpreted with care.
  • Living environments. The majority of crime against the person occurs in private spaces, with 47.7% of incidents recorded in these settings, including 38.8% primarily in dwelling units. In contrast, property crime is concentrated in open public spaces (44.7%), and 28.1% of incidents take place on public roadways.

Read the full report (in French)

For additional information, contact info@cipc‑icpc.org.

The ICPC takes part in a TAHub meeting

The ICPC took part in the Traffik Analysis Hub (TAHub)’s January meeting, a network of 116 organizations across the globe, including the ICPC, whose goal is to contribute to the eradication of human exploitation of all kinds. This meeting included a presentation of new indicators that facilitate the analysis of current tendencies in human trafficking. The American organization Polaris whose mandate is to fight human trafficking also presented a data collection project focused on the U.S.-Mexico agricultural setting. Thanks to the implementation of a hotline, this organization has been able to collect information directly from victims, mostly undocumented Mexican workers, thus widening their impact in the community.

A new employee joins the ICPC

This month, the ICPC welcomed a new employee: Janny Montinat.

Janny, Research Assistant, has a master’s in international law and politics from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Through working on many projects, she has gained experience in multilateral cooperation, digital rights, and personal data protection in Africa. Moreover, she is particularly interested in citizen engagement, public policy analysis, and issues related to human mobility. Welcome to the team!

ICPC continues to participate in the “Change the World” webinar series

On February 10, ICPC participated as a panelist in the webinar entitled "Knowledge Systems to Enable Urban Safety" organized by the Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in collaboration with the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (APCOF) ainsi que l’organisation Fixed. This webinar addressed opportunities and concerns linked to knowledge building, data, adaptive learning and the link between knowledge, policy and practice. Among the questions addressed were: How to democratize the safe use of data? How to integrate different types of data? How to build the credibility and usability of qualitative data? How to better manage data and knowledge to support good policy?

Click here to watch ICPC’s contribution:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqdReJkHSqs