{"id":15257058,"date":"2026-08-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/data-confirms-it-crime-in-hamilton-is-trending-down-with-2-major-exceptions\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T10:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:33:36","slug":"data-confirms-it-crime-in-hamilton-is-trending-down-with-2-major-exceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/data-confirms-it-crime-in-hamilton-is-trending-down-with-2-major-exceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Data confirms it, crime in Hamilton is trending down with 2 major exceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/27abe9fb-d907-4eff-a66a-a4fcc4201d19,1786301506436\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29\" alt=\"Police cruiser with flashing blue lights blocks a city street cordoned off with yellow tape.\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" title=\"Police cars at the scene of a homicide in Hamilton.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While some people in Hamilton report feeling unsafe in the city, Statistics Canada crime data confirms what police have been saying: overall, crime in Hamilton is trending down, and below Ontario and national averages. There&#8217;s just one major exception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/hamilton-crime-statistics-9.7306458?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News &#8211; Canada &#8211; Hamilton &#8211; cbc-ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some people in Hamilton report feeling unsafe in the city, Statistics Canada crime data confirms what police have been saying: overall, crime in Hamilton is trending down, and below Ontario and national averages. There&#8217;s just one major exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15257060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15257058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamilton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default.avif",620,349,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default-300x169.avif",300,169,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default.avif",620,349,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default.avif",620,349,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default.avif",620,349,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default.avif",620,349,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default.avif",620,349,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default.avif",620,349,false],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default.avif",620,349,false],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default.avif",620,349,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default-510x349.avif",510,349,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default-160x160.avif",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default-24x24.avif",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default-48x48.avif",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default-96x96.avif",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default-150x150.avif",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257058-default-300x300.avif",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Hamilton<\/a>","tag_info":"Hamilton","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15257058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15257059,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257058\/revisions\/15257059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15257060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15257058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15257058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15257058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}