The Northern View, August 29, 2012

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◆ Northwest Community College

hit with legal challenge... PAGE 2

◆ Celebrating the labour

movement on Labour Day... PAGE 13

◆ Results from the 2012 Reader’s Choice Awards... PAGES 16-22 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2012 Proudly serving the North Coast - The eNVy of the North www.thenorthernview.com 250-624-8088 VOL. 7 NO. 35

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Keith Lambourne stands outside of the “Prince Rupert Jail” that contains MLA Gary Coons, who was one of the 12 people arrested in support of the Cops for Cancer Tour de North during Saturday’s Cow Bay Days. For more from Cow Bay Days, see pages 10 and 11.

◆ RCMP RESPOND

Crime severity has dropped since 2011 By Shaun Thomas

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The Northern View The Prince Rupert RCMP say that while the city had the eighth highest crime severity index in the country according to figures released last month by Stats Canada, it’s important to note the number actually dropped from last year. In the previous year Prince Rupert also ranked eighth, but this year the overall CSI dropped 8.07 points, or 4.25 per cent, while non-violent crime dropped 11.66 per cent. “For the Prince Rupert RCMP Detachment this was a significant achievement,” said Cst. Matt Ericson in a statement from the local detachment. “The largest contributor to the decline in these statistics is largely the Prince Rupert RCMP’s members themselves. Often

these members go above and “It is our belief that the beyond their call of duty and City of Prince Rupert is and remain after hours to complete will continue to be a safe files, apply for search warrants community and that this has and in some cases attend the been demonstrated in the detachment on their days off to downward trend in crime. complete their investigations. The Prince Rupert RCMP is These members are valued committed to promoting safe assets, and are dedicated to the homes and safe communities community of Prince Rupert.” and that we can build on However, the detachment our current success by being acknowledges that the violent proactive with this strategy by Cst. Matt Ericson preventing crime in the onset crime increased year-overyear, but say that is attributed rather than the outset,” said to “a local group attempting Ericson. to break into the drug trade, “We would like to remind however this group has dispersed. the community that these numbers are very Overall, the RCMP refute the claims subjective and do not take into account the that Prince Rupert is one of the 10 most repetitious nature of certain offences which dangerous places to live in Canada. are evaluated on a per capita basis.

“These numbers are very subjective and do not take into account the repetitious nature of certain offences...”

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