Winnipeg Police Service reports 2025 drop in violent crime and severity

The winnipeg police service said its 2025 annual report shows Winnipeg saw a decrease in violent crime and severity last year. The report gives the city an official snapshot of crime trends in 2025.

Winnipeg police service report

The annual report is the key document behind the finding. It places the change in violent crime inside a broader citywide crime review rather than a single incident, which makes the trend more useful for residents tracking safety in neighborhoods, transit areas, and downtown.

The report also indicates homicides were part of the 2025 crime picture covered in the same review. That leaves readers with a broader measure than one category alone, because the service is looking at both violent crime levels and severity across the city.

2025 crime trends

For people living in Winnipeg, the main takeaway is that police data now point to a drop last year rather than a rise. The report does not turn that into a guarantee for any one street or block, but it does show the service is measuring a shift in the citywide numbers it tracks each year.

The practical question for residents is whether the lower violent-crime trend changes what they should watch next. On the information in the annual report, the answer is to follow the service’s next crime release and compare whether the same pattern holds across other categories in 2025, including the homicide figures mentioned in the report headline.

Winnipeg annual report

CityNews Winnipeg reported on the police service’s 2025 annual report. The report itself is the named source for the decrease in violent crime and severity, and it is the document readers will need if they want the full citywide breakdown.

What matters now is the report’s direction of travel: Winnipeg police say the city moved to lower violent-crime levels in 2025, and the next test is whether that trend appears again in the service’s future reporting.