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The Highest Crime Rates In Alberta – Aug 2023

The level of town crime rose so significantly that for the first time the top half of all towns, (38 of 76) had a higher crime rate than the top half of cities (8 of 16).  That is big. The six highest rural crime locations had triple the amount of crime at least ½ of the other counties in the province

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Crime Prevention Issues

Crime watching versus blocking

The future is about blocking crime. Blocking crime is simple. The idea is to use every single tool that gets in the head of the potential criminal and stops them before a crime happens. There needs to be a clearly effective method that proves to the potential criminal ‘don’t go

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Two Big Online Tricks(ters)

If I had low business ethics, what is the best way to trick people into buying? Easy. 1- cheap price2- list on amazon3- lots of good reviews The best way to get good reviews is to hire a company to fake them. Listing on amazon looks to be easy, they are coin operated.

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Crime Prevention Issues

The Highest Crime Rates In Alberta – July 2023

This chart shows the cities with the highest crime rates in Alberta for July 2023. Property crime escalating to extreme levels creates hidden waste and costs taxpayers, especially homeowners. See the breakdown below. The cities with the highest property crime rates in July were Cold Lake, Wetaskawin, Grande Prairie, Red Deer, Edmonton and

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Crime Prevention Issues

Seven Most Likely Ways Your Holiday Trailer, RV, Boat, or ATV Will Get Stolen This Summer

Peak season for high value thefts involving holiday trailers, RVs, boats, and ATVs is normally between June 1 to October 31. Too many are left devastated and face substantial financial losses. In this article, I'll explore seven common reasons that thieves get away with stealing these things, and why there are security holes that allow it to...

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Crime Prevention Issues

The Most Dangerous Cities In Alberta – June 2023

The highest crime rates in the province occur in the cities. The largest cities don’t always have the highest crime rate though. Calgary, the largest city in the province ranked 48th, leaving many other cities and towns with a much higher crime rate. The top 10 places for property crime on a per resident basis are mostly towns. See the rankings...

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Home Security

The Excavator That Got Away To Steal An ATM

When the credit union staff arrived for work on Monday this is what part of their building looked like. Sometime around 3am an excavator was stolen at a nearby construction site and as then driven to this building and used to rip the ATM out of the building. When done, they put the ATM on a stolen truck and drove

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App Results, Crime Prevention Issues

The Most Dangerous Cities In Alberta - May 2023

The six cities with the highest property crime rates per resident were Cold Lake, Red Deer, Wetaskawin, Grande Prairie, Leduc and Edmonton. Calgary was #7 on the list. This is how many property crimes took place in each city in May. Cold Lake 107Red Deer 463Wetaskiwin 58Grande Prairie 271Leduc 114Edmonton 3294Calgary* 3868Fort Saskatchewan...

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App Results

Edmonton Crime Rate Safety Guide For Homeowners

The Edmonton crime rate has risen to be one of the highest per capita for the province of Alberta in 2023. This is a short guide showing proven methods of how homeowners can stop crimes before they happen and get back to the safer streets and homes the way they used to be. Just a short time ago, the Calgary crime rate was much higher than...

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Questions, Crime Prevention Issues

Local Crime Rates

‘You’re service lacks any clear reports or proof that it is any better than anyone else’s.” Doug was the interim CAO for big new client of ours. I think he liked our company and was actually trying to help us when he said those words. From the moment he said it, I knew he was right, and that feeling of letting down an important customer burned...

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The Most Dangerous Cities In Alberta - April 2023 Edition

Wait! The most current crime data is now from July 2023. To see the latest you may want to visit - The Highest Crime Rates In Alberta – July 2023 Of these six cities, Edmonton and region had the highest overall crime rates. Edmonton residents experienced 3459 property crimes during April. This is 3.42 crimes per 1,000 residents. Half of the...

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Crime Prevention Issues

The Most Dangerous Cities In Alberta - March 2023 Edition

Wait! The most current crime data is now from July 2023 not March. To see the latest you may want to visit - The Highest Crime Rates In Alberta – July 2023 These are the police reported crime rankings for 162 cities, towns, counties and communities across Alberta during March

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Crime Prevention Issues

The Most Dangerous Cities, Towns And Rural Places in Alberta February 2023

These rankings show the places with the highest crime rates in February 2023.   At the end of the post is a list of 124 communities and where they ranked from the worst property crime levels to the lowest. All rankings are done on a per 1,000 resident basis to help make an equal

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Crime Prevention Issues

The Most Dangerous Cities, Towns And Counties in Alberta In January 2023

The Cities with the highest property crime rates in Alberta in January 2023 are shown in the chart below. Wetaskawin had the highest crime rate for a City in January. It was also #1 in December. Total property crimes were 79Cold Lake was #2. Total property crimes were - 86Edmonton was #3. Total property crimes were - 3728Red Deer was #4. Total...

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Crime Prevention Issues

The Most Dangerous Cities, Towns And Counties in Alberta - Dec 2022

Wetaskawin had the highest crime rate for a City in December.  It was #2 in December.  Total property crimes were 58 Cold Lake was #2.  It was #1 in November.   Total property crimes were - 65Red Deer was #3.  It was #3 in November.   Total property crimes were - 324Calgary* was #4.  It was #5 in November.   Total property crimes were -...

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Crime Prevention Issues

The Most Dangerous Cities And Places in Alberta November 2022

Cities with the highest crime rates in Alberta in November. Cold Lake had the highest crime rate for a City in November. Next was Wetaskawin, Red Deer, Grande Prairie, Calgary and Edmonton as the cities with the highest property crime rates. Total Crimes for each location were Cold Lake - 84, Wetaskawin - 54, Red Deer - 373, Grande Prairie...

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Crime Prevention Issues

Crime In Your Area

This chart shows how a lot of people in the US think crime has increased this year. (Statista - https://www.statista.com/chart/28639/perception-crime-local-area-us/) To me it's kind of weird that they'd divide the survey across political lines of Democrats and Republicans like they

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Questions

The Most Dangerous Places in Alberta October 2022

Here are the six most dangerous places in Alberta, according to the police reported crime rates. Bonnyville had the highest crime rate in the province according to the RCMP property crime data. There were over 12.96 crimes per 1,000 residents or 83 in total. Bon Accord had the second highest crime rate in the province, rising to over 9.16 crimes...

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The Most Dangerous Places in Alberta - September 2022

Here are the six most dangerous places in Alberta, according to the police reported crime rates. St. Paul had the highest crime rate in the province according to the RCMP property crime data. There were over 18 crimes per 1,000 residents. This was the highest crime rate per resident I’d ever

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Questions

A CAO (Town Manager) asked 'How is the court process with Lightcatch handled?' Here was our response.

I’ll answer this question specifically but feel the most important point to look at before I answer this question is to ask ‘Why are so few property crimes never going to court in the first place?’ The miniscule amount of property claims that do go to court often involve a long investigation, followed with a seizure of many stolen items at once....

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