Sarnia’s latest crime severity index dropped by nearly twenty-nine percent, but local police caution that this number reflects sentence severity rather than total crimes committed. While four homicides in ’24 artificially spiked the baseline to make this drop look dramatic, local call logs tell a mixed story: break-ins fell thirty-one percent to 253 incidents and weapons calls dropped to 108, yet shoplifting calls doubled to 822 and intimate partner violence reports remained high at nearly fifteen hundred. Overall, police solved over ninety percent of serious violent cases last year.
Reporting for WGRT – JP bZet
