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Homicide capital of Canada.
Violent crime capital of Canada.
These are the inglorious honours given to Winnipeg following the release of a new report by Statistics Canada.
A national survey of police-reported crime data for 2011 found Winnipeg and Manitoba had the highest homicide rates in the country, and Winnipeg had the most violent crime.
Winnipeg had a homicide rate of 5.1 per 100,000 residents -- highest among major Canadian communities and Winnipeg's highest since the data were first collected in 1981.
Manitoba had a homicide rate of 4.2 per 100,000 residents.
The official homicide rate would have been higher, but it was based on the 39 known homicides at the close of the year. Two more homicides were discovered in June -- victims of alleged serial killer Shawn Cameron Lamb -- but those were recorded too late to be part of the 2011 analysis.
The violent crime capital title comes as a result of a weighted score for all violent crimes. While the total number of violent crimes decreased in Winnipeg in 2011, the Violent Crime Severity Index, which measures the seriousness of violent crime, found Winnipeg had the highest score in the country; and an increase of six per cent from last year -- the only major Canadian city of similar size or larger to see the violent crime index increase.
University of Winnipeg criminologist Melannie Nimmo said the high rate of homicides and violence in the city is a result of social issues within specific neighbourhoods.
Homicides are concentrated in the downtown and North End, Nimmo said.
"It's no coincidence that the most violent areas of the city are the core and the North End," she said. "It's happening in impoverished, marginalized areas.