Winnipeg Free Press: Governments need to work together in addressing root causes of crime: Gillingham

Prof. Frank Cormier, a University of Manitoba criminologist, cautioned against reading too deeply into increases and decreases in the statistics year-over-year.

“Generally, it all goes back to the same root cause, that is sometimes magnified by things like the pandemic, or different drugs being in vogue or more or less available,” he said.

Crime in Winnipeg is, largely, tied to entrenched economic and social problems, he said.

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