Saskatoon violent crime remains high in 2024: police [Video]

Violent crime in Saskatoon was up by over 10 per cent year-over-year in the second quarter of 2024, according to new data from the Saskatoon police.

The update from police Chief Cameron McBride’s office before the board of police commissioner’s meeting next week confirms the uptick in violent crimes like homicides, kidnapping, stalking and robbery seen at the beginning of the year have continued.

There were five additional homicides since the police service last reported to the commission, bringing the total to 11 so far this year, compared to six in the first half of 2023.

In three of those killings, no one has yet been charged. The first involved an April 15 assault on a 30-year-old man at a home near Confederation Mall who later died of his injuries.

The next day, a 25-year-old man was fatally shot in the 200 block of Avenue O South, and in June a 66-year-old disabled group home resident was beaten just outside Fairhaven School, …