Cold case data shows almost 100 unsolved homicides in Calgary since 2005 yyc yyccrime
At a police commission meeting Wednesday, the service presented data from an internal study on unsolved homicides from 2005 to the end of 2021. In that time frame, there were 440 homicides in the city — an average of 26 per year.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“What a superior job the Calgary Police Service homicide unit is doing,” said Mount Royal University criminologist Doug King. “They solve more, and they do it quicker, than they’ve been doing it in the past. They’re doing both of those things better than most, if not all, homicide units in Canada.”Article content
Two-thirds of the unsolved killings in Calgary are associated with organized crime or drugs, police said — 50 of the 80 gang-tied killings between 2005 and 2021, and 13 of 60 drug-related homicides remain unsolved. With the statistics overlapping in some cases, shooting deaths also accounted for two-thirds of the still-open homicide cases.
“Offences like, for example, domestic homicide, or homicides where the offenders are known to the victim are more straightforward when it comes to investigating and solving,” CPS Deputy Chief Ryan Ayliffe told the commission on Wednesday. “The gang-motivated and gun homicides are the hardest for us to clear.”
Police Chief Mark Neufeld said it’s not a case of police not having suspects in many of those cases; it’s the ability of Crown prosecutors to approve charges. He said prosecutors are rightfully wary of laying charges when the evidence isn’t solid. If somebody is tried and found not guilty, they can’t be tried on the same information again.
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