Statistics

• Nearly 950 organized crime groups are operating in major urban centres and smaller communities in Canada with varying levels of sophistication.
• Over 300 street gangs have been identified, with an estimated 11,000 gang members and associates.
• It is estimated that $27 to $69 million is laundered annually.
• Credit card fraud led to losses of $200 million in Canada in 2005. Debit card losses amounted to $70 million.
• About 30 per cent of the 170,000 motor vehicles that are stolen every year in Canada are never recovered.
• Motor vehicle theft costs Canadians an estimated $1 billion a year.
• The impact on the global economy of counterfeit goods such as CDs and purses is an estimated $600 billion a year.
• Cybertip.ca (the on-line tipline for the reporting of potential Internet child sexual abuse) has received a total of 9,145 public reports. These tips have resulted in 17 arrests, 972 web sites shut down and 700 ongoing investigations.
• Globally, profits from child pornography are estimated at about $24 billion a year.
• Despite these numbers, only 23 per cent of Canadians agree that they have been personally affected by organized crime.

Learn more about organized crime from the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada