Justice committee The proportion of unsolved? Yes, I can. We recently did a study. We went back to 1961 and we followed up on all unsolved homicides in Canada, and 85% are solved.
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner
Justice committee It's been fairly constant, but dropping over the last few years.
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner
Justice committee Yes, we could get that, since we've started collecting that data.
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner
Justice committee I can tell you that for homicides we collect the aboriginal status of both the victims and the accused persons, and selected police departments send us the aboriginal status for all crimes committed—but there are some data quality issues with that particular variable.
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner
Justice committee Yes.
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner
Justice committee That includes sawed-off rifle shotguns and fully automatic firearms.
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner
Justice committee It could even possibly be something like a starter's pistol, if it were to cause death.
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner
Justice committee Obviously, we can't comment on any specific case, but what we get is the number as determined by police, the number murdered in any particular incident.
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner
Justice committee I couldn't comment on the individual practices. It's entirely possible. There aren't that many cases of the kind you're talking about that would influence the numbers very much. Basically, they use our scoring, so if there's enough evidence to deem that a homicide has taken place
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner
Justice committee The one thing we can point out is that gang homicides--we can't tell you anything more about robbery--do tend to involve a firearm more than do non-gang homicides. There has been an increase in gang homicides over the last few years, if that helps.
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner
Justice committee These homicides simply represent the number of victims, regardless of whether--
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner
Justice committee In terms of the chart you're looking at, chart 4, no. These have nothing to do with sentencing whatsoever.
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner
Justice committee Again, not on chart 4. It has nothing to do with the court system—
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner
Justice committee If the police have the evidence to support that the person in this example did commit sixteen crimes that they have had reported to them but which they haven't solved, then they would solve and record all sixteen of those as being committed by that person, upon their investigatio
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner
Justice committee We get sixteen.
November 22nd, 2006Committee meeting
John Turner