Reasons for not reporting victimization incidents to the police, by territory, 2014
Table 9Reason for not reporting | Yukon | Northwest Territories | Nunavut | All territoriesNote † |
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percent | ||||
Crime was minor and not worth taking the time to report | 81 | 82 | 70Note * | 78 |
Police wouldn't have considered the incident important enough | 74 | 67 | 62 | 68 |
Incident was a private or personal matter and was handled informally | 48 | 51 | 51 | 50 |
No one was harmed/no financial loss | 53 | 49 | 46Note E: Use with caution | 49 |
Lack of evidence | 45 | 53 | 42 | 47 |
Police wouldn’t have found property/offender | 46 | 50 | 41Note E: Use with caution | 46 |
Did not want the hassle of dealing with the police | 38 | 48 | 40 | 42 |
Police would not have been effective | 36 | 38 | 39Note E: Use with caution | 37 |
Offender would not be convicted or adequately punished | 31 | 42 | 40Note E: Use with caution | 38 |
No harm was intended | 33Note E: Use with caution | 37 | 34Note E: Use with caution | 35 |
Feared or did not want the hassle of dealing with the court process | 20Note E: Use with caution | 33Note E: Use with caution | Note F: too unreliable to be published | 25 |
Did not want to get the offender in trouble | Note F: too unreliable to be published | Note F: too unreliable to be published | Note F: too unreliable to be published | 15Note E: Use with caution |
Unsatisfactory service (from police) in the past | 15Note E: Use with caution | 18Note E: Use with caution | 10Note E: Use with cautionNote * | 14Note E: Use with caution |
Didn’t want others to know | Note F: too unreliable to be published | Note F: too unreliable to be published | Note F: too unreliable to be published | 8Note E: Use with caution |
Reported to another official | Note F: too unreliable to be published | Note F: too unreliable to be published | Note F: too unreliable to be published | 8Note E: Use with caution |
Police would be biased | Note F: too unreliable to be published | Note F: too unreliable to be published | Note F: too unreliable to be published | 7Note E: Use with caution |
Insurance wouldn’t cover it | Note F: too unreliable to be published | Note F: too unreliable to be published | Note F: too unreliable to be published | 7Note E: Use with caution |
Nothing was taken/all items were recovered | Note F: too unreliable to be published | Note F: too unreliable to be published | Note F: too unreliable to be published | 6Note E: Use with caution |
Did not need a police report to file claim | Note F: too unreliable to be published | Note F: too unreliable to be published | Note F: too unreliable to be published | 4Note E: Use with caution |
E use with caution F too unreliable to be published
Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2014. |
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