Mafia and gang activity -- quantified-- in Canada

[antimafia]

Cross-posting.

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From the article to which I've linked below (I will try to find a link to the Statistics Canada report):

A national police association is welcoming the publication of new crime data by Statistics Canada that provides the first quantitative look at gang and Mafia activity in the country.

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Annual Statscan crime report suggests increase in organized crime homicides

http://web.archive.org/web/201907241352 ... zed-crime/

[antimafia]

GTA saw 36 organized crime murders in 2018, StatsCan says

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/0 ... -says.html

[slimshady_007]

Why’s LE so bad at solving mafia murders in Canada?

[gohnjotti]

Why’s LE so bad at solving mafia murders in Canada?

Because Mafia murders are seldom solved on DNA evidence. They are solved more through investigations, wiretaps and testimony from informers. I don’t think Canadian LE is getting the kind of budget needed for those sorts of investigations. I don’t think they have as much power as US law enforcement to authorise wiretaps and bugs, and there isn’t as much emphasis on cultivating informers and rats, because sentences are drastically shorter in Canada and turning cooperating witness is less mainstream in Canadian LE.

[antimafia]

Cross-posting.

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Links to the Statistics Canada report and portions of it:

Police-reported crime statistics, 2018
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-q ... .htm?HPA=1 (14 pp.; downloadable PDF is 263 KB)

Police-reported organized crime, by most serious violation, Canada (selected police services)
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en ... 3510006201 (various options for downloading this table; files under 50 KB)

Police-reported crime statistics, 2018
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85- ... 13-eng.pdf (Juristat, 67 pp.; downloadable PDF is 1,580 KB)

Police-reported crime in Canada, 2018
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/ ... t=IJTuOjb1 (1-page infographic; downloadable PDF is 2.3 MB)

[mobinfiltrator]

Why’s LE so bad at solving mafia murders in Canada?

Because Mafia murders are seldom solved on DNA evidence. They are solved more through investigations, wiretaps and testimony from informers. I don’t think Canadian LE is getting the kind of budget needed for those sorts of investigations. I don’t think they have as much power as US law enforcement to authorise wiretaps and bugs, and there isn’t as much emphasis on cultivating informers and rats, because sentences are drastically shorter in Canada and turning cooperating witness is less mainstream in Canadian LE.

I’m going to say incompetence and unprofessionalism plays a part also. The GH Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, which collated a lot of this intelligence and dealt with CI’s disbanded. This was an important tool in combating TOC. The official line for closure was ‘operational difference’, the actually reason was officers behaving like children.

[dixiemafia]

Yep guys are not afraid of the Canadian justice system and that's the biggest factor I think. Plus I'm not sure their gangsterism charges are even close to what we have with RICO charges.

[mobinfiltrator]

Yep guys are not afraid of the Canadian justice system and that's the biggest factor I think. Plus I'm not sure their gangsterism charges are even close to what we have with RICO charges.

No where close.


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[antimafia]

GTA saw 36 organized crime murders in 2018, StatsCan says

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/0 ... -says.html

GTA leads Canada in organized crime homicides, Statscan reveals in new gangland data

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ ... -1.5226940