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Regina had the highest rate, with 68.5 victims per 100,000 people . Saskatoon was third with a rate of 46.7 victims per 100,000 people . In second place was Winnipeg, with 56.9 victims per 100,000 people. “I think that one of the challenges is that the solution that might fix one aspect of that problem might not necessarily affect the other two elements. I think we have to step back and look at these three challenges in different ways and look at different solutions to these three different problems,” Ruddell said.
Firearms-related crimes were outnumbered by violent crimes involving other weapons in 2021 — 5,472 incidents involving knives or other cutting instruments, blunt objects, rope, fire or vehicles.that found Saskatchewan had the highest rate of firearms-related homicides among the provinces in 2021, at 1.86 per capita, or 22 total firearms-related homicides. Regina had the highest rate of firearms-related homicides among major cities, at 2.65 per capita, or seven deaths.
Ruddell said heard consistently for years about this intersection of drugs, gang involvement and guns leading to the high rates of homicides and other serious violent crimes.