Crime in Kelowna, Canada

SOPA in the Pandosy, Mission area of Kelowna has mire and more break-ins and robberies, ongoing month after month...SOPA is extremely unsafe complex to live in comfort. Fear is SOPA middle name.

RCMP are at SOPA every week...SOPA is in a dangerous city filled with starving homeless thieves everywhere in Kelowna.

As a person who lives and works downtown Kelowna! I know for a fact it is getting worse, I keep my yard locked up at night so do my neibours! As for not reporting it the theft in Kelowna is out of control and I feel nothing is being done! We have called r.c.m.p. To help us out when we hadlarge thefts and no one shows up! A lot of paper work for them that goes nowhere!i think the people at city hall really doesn’t care because it’s not on their doorstep! Oh but the funniest thing was they announced they were going to amp up security when there is an event! So the tourists that are paying for tickets and have a job are being targeted because their the problem! Give me a break! We just had a business that opened up downtown for the geo bikes it was going really well now the bikes are missing seats and tires!and what happened with that young chef that was stabbed to death during fireworks! They said they have cameras at the bus stop! And so? Cameras are fake or what?

It's odd that ppl feel safer at night than day, according to this. Need a less subjective measure. Actual analysis from University or City. Same thoughts for crime rates also too subjective highly skewed by small unknown sample.

@ Steven

You argue that just because Rape gets reported more in one college than it does everywhere else in the city basically debunks this poll.

You said "If Kelowna is such a crime haven (versus other cities), where is it?" Well according to your conclusion, "Its not being reported". That doesnt mean its not happening. Im sure like anywhere there are hotspots for crime and so you may not be living near those spots.

my point is, just because someone doesnt report something, or a school has a better policy for reporting and are more strict, doesnt mean the crimes do not exists.

I have seen many studies done on Kelowna and they all seem to say the same thing. Although the crime dropped just enough since 2013 to take Kelowna out of the top spot in Canada, its still quite far up in the list.

I do believe the Province should be sending more police and a gang task force up there if they want to tackle this problem. Maybe they need more education on crime in the schools. Start on these future criminals in the schools. I dont believe there is only one action that would make the difference. I believe there are many that would significantly make a change.