First half of the year in homicide

Daniel Renaud looks at the first half of this year in homicide. We’ve seen 13 killings in the city so far this year. Renaud says in one place that we haven’t seen a single “gangland settling of accounts” this year, yet in his summary at the end, puts four homicides in the “règlement de comptes” category.

This year seems to be returning to the recent pattern of roughly 25 killings a year, which was notably broken with a high of 37 in 2021.

Update: On Twitter, Ted Rutland tells me that “règlement de comptes” does not necessarily imply gang activity.