Edmonton overall crime rate reaches lowest in over a decade: police statistics

Posted January 30, 2025 2:34 pm.
Last Updated January 30, 2025 6:29 pm.
While violent criminal incidents were up slightly in Edmonton in 2024 compared to 2023, overall the city’s crime rate and crime severity were down.
That’s according to 2024 end-of-year crime statistics released Thursday by the Edmonton Police Service, which warns the figures are somewhat preliminary given some investigations remain ongoing.
What the numbers show are domestic violent incidents were down 3.1 per cent; and crime severity decreased by 3.5 per cent.
Criminal incidents with a knife went up 3.2 per cent while criminal incidents with a firearm were down 10.9 per cent. Edmonton police had already revealed a 47 per cent decrease in shootings from 2023 to 2024.
The average crime severity at LRT or transit centres was down six per cent despite calls for service going up 12 per cent.
The total number of violent incidents went up slightly by 1.8 per cent. But the city’s overall crime rate went down 2.5 per cent – the lowest in Edmonton in over a decade.
Edmonton Police Service crime charts for 2024



In a statement, outgoing Edmonton police Chief Dale McFee attributed the crime drop to balancing enforcement with support; EPS community safety teams; and the force’s high-risk encampment teams.
“The stability we have built in our organization has given us the ability to better plan resources to bolster our front lines, so they can do more proactive work to get ahead of issues,” McFee said.
“However, we continue to hear from our community about the disorder they are seeing every day in their neighbourhoods and the ways in which it impacts how safe people feel. While police are at the forefront of dealing with these challenges, we know we do not address them alone. How we tackle the broader issues of disorder in our city fundamentally underpins how safe people feel in our communities, and we all need to address this.”