Violent and property crime totals dropped across much of Greater Sudbury last year, with the most significant decrease recorded in the city’s downtown area.
The plunging crime rate shifted downtown’s rank as second in combined violent and property crime totals in a Greater Sudbury neighbourhood in 2021, to fifth. “It’s really neat to see how everybody is all-encompassingly working together,” he said, listing the city, police and various organizations that work downtown as affecting change alongside the neighbourhood’s growing business community.
That said, he added, “Even when things were their worst they never lived up to the narrative that continually is perpetuated.” Coniston recorded 65 incidents in 2021 and 86 in 2022, accounting for an increase of 32.31 per cent with a difference of only 21 incidents.