EPS 2024 Crime Statistics (media release) + 2024 homicide count

Original source: https://www.edmontonpolice.ca/News/MediaReleases/CrimeStats2024 Retrieved: 2026-07-04

City of Edmonton (EPS jurisdiction) 2024 vs 2023: - Overall Crime Severity Index down 5%; Violent CSI down 10%; violent crime rate down 3% — "trended to a 5-year low," lower than national and provincial averages. Total crime rate down 6%. - Disorder/poverty-driven offences UP: shoplifting under $5,000 +12%; methamphetamine possession +116%; opioid possession +152%; disorder calls for service +8.6%.

City-only homicides (per news reporting on EPS year-end data; Edmonton Journal, "Homicides at five-year low, domestic violence up in Edmonton," Dec 2024): 30 homicides in 2024 vs 43 in 2023 — a five-year low. Edmonton's single-year record is 49 (2017). Secondary corroboration: Homicide Canada Edmonton 2024 victim list.

Original source (Journal framing): https://x.com/edmontonjournal/status/1873549680954515866 Retrieved: 2026-07-04

Note the split: 2024 overall crime and homicide FELL, even as the material misery indicators (drug possession, shoplifting, disorder calls) rose sharply — the classic signature of criminalized poverty. Use for the honest caveat that a carceral answer is decoupled from the actual violence trend.