Edmonton on track toward record-high number of homicides

[CHIMO]

Gunshots rang out just east of Edmonton’s downtown early Friday morning, leaving a young man dead and extending the city’s grim plod towards a record-high number of homicides.

It was the city’s 25th slaying of the year, nearly equal to the 27 it had in all of 2010 and well above other Canadian cities. For instance, the province’s other major centre, Calgary, has had two murders this year.

As forensics crews continued to investigate a secluded roadway east of downtown where the latest victim was found dead just after 3 a.m., Edmonton Acting Police Chief David Korol tried to make sense of the spike.

“This is Edmonton’s most recent homicide, way too many for a city this size,” Acting Chief Korol said, adding the city remains safe for those who aren’t involved in crime. However, there’s no single reason why the city has seen such a spike so early in the year – alcoholism and drug abuse are common in most of the slayings, and nearly all of the victims are believed to have known their attacker. Some have been domestic killings.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/edmonton-on-track-toward-record-high-number-of-homicides/article2046998/

So Harper land, south Alberta, has 13% of incidents, they have an equal number of people. So northern Alberta will be subject to the Reform justice laws.

This may leave open a north/south break in Alberta!