Prince George not only remains in the top spot in this year's editions of Maclean's crime rankings but the city also figures prominently in seven categories according to a posting on the magazine's website.
The magazine determined that Prince George was third highest in break and enters, fourth highest in sexual assault and in cannabis possession, fifth highest in impaired driving, seventh highest in aggravated assault, ninth highest in motor vehicle theft, and 14th highest in robbery.
The only category among in which Prince George did not make the top 15 was homicides as the number of murder cases dropped from 10 in 2010 to one in 2011 according to Statistics Canada.
That total, in turn, was at odds with Prince George RCMP records which showed seven murders in 2010 and none in 2011. A Statistics Canada official has said that sometimes a homicide is brought to their attention in a different calendar year than the incident's date.
The city went 401 days without a homicide before a January house fire claimed the life of Jagdev Singh Jawanda. Frank William Edward Marion faces charges of manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death from that incident.
To find the page, go to the magazine's home page, then click on "Canada's Most Dangerous Cities" which directs viewers to a page called "Where Canadian Criminals Go To Play."
It also shows a graph that identifies Prince George as B.C.'s highest crime city with a score of 159.47 on the Statistics Canada crime severity index.
The score is also the highest among the worst cities for each province and works out to being 105 per cent higher than the score for Canada as a whole of 77.62. Last year, Prince George's score was 114 per cent higher.
