Police said 60 per cent of the unsolved homicide cases from 2005 to 2021 involved guns and organized crime. yyc
Over 21 per cent of homicides remain unsolved in Calgary, according to a presentation to the Calgary Police Commission on Wednesday.said 440 homicides happened in Calgary between 2005 to 2021 — an average of 26 per year. Around 140 of those homicides can be attributed to organized crime and drugs; police attributed 80 to organized crime and 60 to drugs.Ninety-six of those homicides remain unsolved, the CPS said, including 50 organized crime-related homicides and 13 drug-related homicides.
Two-thirds of unsolved homicide cases were committed with guns and 60 per cent of unsolved homicides involved guns and organized crime, police said. Gun homicides are harder to solve because of the lack of physical evidence and witnesses are not as forthcoming to the police, according to the presentation.
“Sometimes they even come forward and tell the police who it is, but that doesn’t necessarily equate to hard evidence to a judge. There’s oftentimes this gap, that is built up between what people’s perceptions are of what the police can do relative to what they can do on. “When the community sees people who may or may not be involved with violent crime, and they see them released again and again or they don’t see consequences … I think they’re very apprehensive to come forward.”
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