The Newfoundland & Labrador Public Record

Violence

Offences against a person, from uttering threats through to homicide. Figures below are for 2025.

10,110 Reported to police 1,838 per 100,000 people
3,579 Led to a charge 35 in 100 reports
3,146 People charged 632 per 100,000 aged 12+
1,455 Finished in court 35 in 100 ended in a guilty finding Court year 2024/2025. A different survey.
Someone charged 3,579 Solved another way 511 No one charged 6,020

1,256 further reports, 11.1 per cent of all reports received, were judged not to have happened. They are not counted above.

1998 to 2025

Counts Per 100,000 people
0 3,750 7,500 11,250 15,0001998 — Someone charged: 2,7061998 — Solved another way: 1,7901998 — No one charged: 2,4781999 — Someone charged: 3,2701999 — Solved another way: 1,9191999 — No one charged: 2,5512000 — Someone charged: 3,2772000 — Solved another way: 1,3692000 — No one charged: 3,1482001 — Someone charged: 3,1102001 — Solved another way: 1,3892001 — No one charged: 2,8412002 — Someone charged: 2,7512002 — Solved another way: 1,4182002 — No one charged: 3,0512003 — Someone charged: 2,8092003 — Solved another way: 1,8472003 — No one charged: 2,6752004 — Someone charged: 2,4622004 — Solved another way: 1,6922004 — No one charged: 2,8892005 — Someone charged: 2,3322005 — Solved another way: 1,5592005 — No one charged: 2,9482006 — Someone charged: 2,3462006 — Solved another way: 2,1642006 — No one charged: 2,1752007 — Someone charged: 2,6342007 — Solved another way: 2,3182007 — No one charged: 2,5762008 — Someone charged: 2,7742008 — Solved another way: 2,3812008 — No one charged: 2,5932009 — Someone charged: 2,8612009 — Solved another way: 2,1912009 — No one charged: 2,6292010 — Someone charged: 2,9012010 — Solved another way: 2,1102010 — No one charged: 2,9392011 — Someone charged: 2,8012011 — Solved another way: 1,8002011 — No one charged: 3,2322012 — Someone charged: 2,9222012 — Solved another way: 1,9342012 — No one charged: 3,0612013 — Someone charged: 2,9002013 — Solved another way: 1,6792013 — No one charged: 2,7522014 — Someone charged: 2,5982014 — Solved another way: 1,7382014 — No one charged: 2,3142015 — Someone charged: 2,6752015 — Solved another way: 1,4452015 — No one charged: 3,1082016 — Someone charged: 2,6282016 — Solved another way: 1,2432016 — No one charged: 3,1562017 — Someone charged: 2,9162017 — Solved another way: 1,0902017 — No one charged: 2,9632018 — Someone charged: 2,8602018 — Solved another way: 8982018 — No one charged: 3,3582019 — Someone charged: 2,7872019 — Solved another way: 7142019 — No one charged: 4,6442020 — Someone charged: 2,8772020 — Solved another way: 6772020 — No one charged: 5,1882021 — Someone charged: 2,9412021 — Solved another way: 5782021 — No one charged: 5,9962022 — Someone charged: 3,0912022 — Solved another way: 6822022 — No one charged: 5,7682023 — Someone charged: 3,1832023 — Solved another way: 8262023 — No one charged: 6,2042024 — Someone charged: 3,5042024 — Solved another way: 5592024 — No one charged: 6,6542025 — Someone charged: 3,5792025 — Solved another way: 5112025 — No one charged: 6,02019982002200620102014201820222025
Someone charged 3,579 Solved another way 511 No one charged 6,020

Each bar is the year's total reports. The segments show what happened: a charge was laid, the case was solved another way, or no one was charged.

Figures beside each colour are for 2025. This view always shows counts, whichever measure is selected above.

Subtotals inside this category, 2025

Total robbery166 166
Total firearms, use of, discharge, pointing80 80
Total forcible confinement or kidnapping66 66

Which offences make this up, 2025

Assault, level 13,938 3,938
Uttering threats2,337 2,337
Assault, level 2, weapon or bodily harm1,014 1,014
Criminal harassment687 687
Robbery166 166
Extortion102 102
Assault, level 3, aggravated49 49
Pointing a firearm33 33
Discharge firearm with intent30 30
Using firearm in commission of offence17 17
Homicide12 12
Attempted murder10 10
Murder, first degree9 9
Manslaughter2 2
Trafficking in persons2 2
Murder, second degree1 1
Criminal negligence causing death1 1
Unlawfully causing bodily harm1 1

Select any offence to see it year by year on its own.

What happened in court, 2024/2025

1,455 adult criminal court cases were completed in Newfoundland and Labrador under crimes against the person, and 506 of them, 35 per cent, ended in a guilty finding.

Guilty506 506 35%
Stayed or withdrawn906 906 62%
Acquitted37 37 3%
Other decisions6 6 0%

These are not the incidents above. A court case is counted under the most serious offence it contains, so one case can cover several charges. The court year runs April to March, and the cases completed in it mostly began with charges laid in earlier years. The survey covers adults only; anyone under eighteen at the time of the offence is dealt with in youth court and does not appear here. Court figures use the group crimes against the person, which is close to but not identical with the police category above.

Court outcomes year by year
Court yearCases completed GuiltyStayed or withdrawnAcquitted Guilty per 100
2024/2025 1,455 50690637 35
2023/2024 1,259 46576129 37
2022/2023 1,324 51978124 39
2021/2022 996 44452625 45
2020/2021 1,197 62353930 52
2019/2020 1,415 67969934 48
2018/2019 1,394 72265613 52
2017/2018 1,200 59258719 49
2016/2017 1,183 62453322 53
2015/2016 1,233 70650119 57
2014/2015 1,319 71058814 54
2013/2014 1,317 74454125 56
2012/2013 1,425 82857117 58
2011/2012 1,365 77256918 57
2010/2011 1,405 8545376 61
2009/2010 1,320 8354736 63
2008/2009 1,290 75950116 59
2007/2008 1,131 68841614 61
2006/2007 1,166 7234352 62
2005/2006 1,337 8324896 62
2004/2005 1,379 8535161 62
2003/2004 1,347 8285027 61
2002/2003 1,407 9314643 66
2001/2002 1,335 8894371 67
2000/2001 1,283 8424228 66
What to know about these figures

These figures come from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, a census of crimes reported to and founded by police. They count what police recorded, not everything that happened. Self-reported victimization surveys consistently find most crime is never reported to police; for sexual assault the reported share was about 6 percent in 2019.

Incidents, charges, and court outcomes come from two separate surveys (UCR and the Integrated Criminal Court Survey) that cannot be linked case by case. Read the stages as four measurements of the same system in the same year, not as one group of cases followed from report to verdict.

In January 2018 the definition of a founded incident changed: an incident is now counted as founded unless there is credible evidence that it did not occur. This raised recorded counts across many offence types. Comparisons that cross 2018 should note it.

Newfoundland and Labrador is policed by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary and the RCMP. UCR coverage of the provincial population is 100 percent.

Firearms offences, robbery, and forcible confinement each carry their own subtotal in this panel. The offences listed beneath them are their parts, so adding every line together would count some incidents twice.

The series starts in 1998 because that is the first year this category appears in the survey. Earlier years are left out rather than drawn as zero.

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