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  "id": "crimes-solved",
  "category": "Health and safety",
  "title": "Share of police-reported crimes solved (weighted clearance rate), Greater Victoria",
  "geography": "Victoria census metropolitan area (police-reporting boundaries)",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "Police services (municipal and RCMP)",
    "Provincial and federal justice policy"
  ],
  "plain_question": "Of the crimes reported to police, what share did police solve, counting serious crimes more?",
  "value": 26.58,
  "display_value": "26.58%",
  "unit": "weighted clearance rate",
  "period": "Calendar year 2025",
  "period_start": "2025-01-01",
  "period_end": "2025-12-31",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "Calendar year 2024",
    "previous_value": 27.75,
    "change_percent": -4.2
  },
  "trend": "roughly_flat",
  "trend_basis": "26.58 in 2025 against 27.75 in 2024. B.C.: 23.01. Canada: 36.64.",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "right_direction": "A higher rate means police solved a larger share of reported crime, with serious crimes counting more.",
  "since_text": "Victoria police service (City of Victoria from 2020): 23.44 in 2025; violent crime 29.05.",
  "caveats": [
    "A crime is cleared when police identify a person they can charge and either lay or recommend a charge, or clear it another way. See Statistics Canada’s table notes for the full definition.",
    "The rate is weighted: each cleared crime counts by how serious it is, as in the Crime Severity Index.",
    "Only crime reported to or found by police is counted.",
    "The Victoria police service line comes from table 35-10-0063-01. From 2020 it covers the City of Victoria only (Esquimalt is counted separately from 2020), so earlier years are marked as not comparable. It starts in 2003, the year the department began policing Esquimalt."
  ],
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    {
      "title": "Weighted clearance rate: Greater Victoria, B.C. and Canada",
      "fmt": "dec1",
      "unit": "%",
      "lines": [
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          "area": "cma",
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              "period": "1998",
              "value": 36.84
            },
            {
              "period": "1999",
              "value": 34.7
            },
            {
              "period": "2000",
              "value": 33.67
            },
            {
              "period": "2001",
              "value": 32.68
            },
            {
              "period": "2002",
              "value": 34.08
            },
            {
              "period": "2003",
              "value": 32.44
            },
            {
              "period": "2004",
              "value": 27.55
            },
            {
              "period": "2005",
              "value": 27.68
            },
            {
              "period": "2006",
              "value": 26.29
            },
            {
              "period": "2007",
              "value": 29.54
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            {
              "period": "2008",
              "value": 27.45
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            {
              "period": "2009",
              "value": 32.34
            },
            {
              "period": "2010",
              "value": 35.65
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            {
              "period": "2011",
              "value": 39.17
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            {
              "period": "2012",
              "value": 35.31
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            {
              "period": "2013",
              "value": 36.13
            },
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 36.93
            },
            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 30.7
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 32.28
            },
            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 32.33
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 28.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 25.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 24.96
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 27.56
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 28.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 22.95
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 27.75
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 26.58
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "British Columbia",
          "area": "bc",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "1998",
              "value": 27.88
            },
            {
              "period": "1999",
              "value": 28.52
            },
            {
              "period": "2000",
              "value": 26.56
            },
            {
              "period": "2001",
              "value": 25.67
            },
            {
              "period": "2002",
              "value": 25.39
            },
            {
              "period": "2003",
              "value": 23.61
            },
            {
              "period": "2004",
              "value": 23.05
            },
            {
              "period": "2005",
              "value": 23.04
            },
            {
              "period": "2006",
              "value": 24.73
            },
            {
              "period": "2007",
              "value": 24.99
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            {
              "period": "2008",
              "value": 26.27
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            {
              "period": "2009",
              "value": 28.3
            },
            {
              "period": "2010",
              "value": 30.0
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            {
              "period": "2011",
              "value": 30.75
            },
            {
              "period": "2012",
              "value": 29.65
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            {
              "period": "2013",
              "value": 30.36
            },
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 28.26
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            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 27.65
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 28.31
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            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 29.11
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            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 27.79
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            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 25.97
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            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 25.89
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            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 25.04
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            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 23.69
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            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 20.99
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            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 22.81
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            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 23.01
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        },
        {
          "name": "Canada",
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              "period": "1998",
              "value": 34.06
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            {
              "period": "1999",
              "value": 35.18
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            {
              "period": "2000",
              "value": 35.51
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            {
              "period": "2001",
              "value": 34.98
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            {
              "period": "2002",
              "value": 34.53
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            {
              "period": "2003",
              "value": 33.54
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            {
              "period": "2004",
              "value": 33.58
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            {
              "period": "2005",
              "value": 34.55
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            {
              "period": "2006",
              "value": 35.71
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            {
              "period": "2007",
              "value": 36.48
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            {
              "period": "2008",
              "value": 37.93
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            {
              "period": "2009",
              "value": 38.65
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            {
              "period": "2010",
              "value": 39.65
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            {
              "period": "2011",
              "value": 40.34
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            {
              "period": "2012",
              "value": 40.59
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            {
              "period": "2013",
              "value": 41.0
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            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 40.47
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            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 39.35
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            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 39.55
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            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 39.88
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            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 38.65
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            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 37.02
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            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 37.36
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            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 36.84
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            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 35.99
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            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 34.85
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            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 35.8
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            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 36.64
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      ]
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    {
      "title": "Victoria police service: weighted clearance rate",
      "fmt": "dec1",
      "unit": "%",
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        {
          "period": "2020",
          "label": "Esquimalt separate from 2020"
        }
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          "name": "All crime",
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              "period": "2003",
              "value": 35.86
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            {
              "period": "2004",
              "value": 29.34
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            {
              "period": "2005",
              "value": 28.88
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            {
              "period": "2006",
              "value": 28.74
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            {
              "period": "2007",
              "value": 30.02
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            {
              "period": "2008",
              "value": 28.91
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            {
              "period": "2009",
              "value": 33.93
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            {
              "period": "2010",
              "value": 36.54
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            {
              "period": "2011",
              "value": 40.92
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            {
              "period": "2012",
              "value": 38.39
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            {
              "period": "2013",
              "value": 37.3
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            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 36.42
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            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 27.35
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            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 31.69
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            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 31.43
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            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 28.07
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            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 22.35
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            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 19.65
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            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 22.38
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            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 20.01
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            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 17.86
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            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 24.12
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            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 23.44
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              "period": "2003",
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              "period": "2004",
              "value": 42.89
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            {
              "period": "2005",
              "value": 47.15
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            {
              "period": "2006",
              "value": 48.29
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            {
              "period": "2007",
              "value": 45.61
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            {
              "period": "2008",
              "value": 43.71
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            {
              "period": "2009",
              "value": 43.63
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            {
              "period": "2010",
              "value": 52.96
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            {
              "period": "2011",
              "value": 59.39
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            {
              "period": "2012",
              "value": 55.47
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            {
              "period": "2013",
              "value": 46.05
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            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 50.14
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            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 35.69
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            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 47.63
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            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 46.03
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            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 45.87
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            {
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              "period": "2020",
              "value": 31.39
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              "period": "2021",
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              "period": "2022",
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              "period": "2023",
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            {
              "period": "2024",
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              "period": "2025",
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              "period": "2022",
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              "period": "2023",
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            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 32.61
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            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 25.62
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      "period": "1999",
      "value": 34.7
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    {
      "period": "2000",
      "value": 33.67
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      "period": "2001",
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      "period": "2004",
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      "period": "2005",
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      "period": "2006",
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      "period": "2007",
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    {
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      "period": "2024",
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  "data_published": "2026-07-22",
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    "publisher_page": "https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/crime_and_justice",
    "locator": "Table 35-10-0026-01: Victoria, British Columbia [59935], Weighted clearance rate, 2025",
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        "name": "Table 35-10-0063-01: Victoria, municipal police service, weighted clearance rate",
        "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510006301"
      }
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  "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 35-10-0026-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:18:43Z",
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