Carla Beck’s Team Calls On Scott Moe, Sask. Party Break Vicious Cycle By Investing In Supports and Intervention For Young Victims
REGINA – Carla Beck’s team is calling on Scott Moe and the Sask. Party to provide significantly more support for child and youth victims of violent crime after a new Statistics Canada study found Saskatchewan had the highest provincial rate in Canada of youth victims later encountering police as accused persons.
According to Statistics Canada’s Recontact with police among child and youth victims of violent crime, 2010 to 2024, among young people in Saskatchewan who were victims of police-reported violent crime in 2010, 71 percent had at least one subsequent contact with police as an accused person by 2024, the highest rate among the provinces. Nationally, 58 percent of child and youth victims had some form of subsequent police contact, whether as a victim, accused person, or both.
“These numbers are a devastating indictment of two decades of Sask. Party failure,” said Nicole Sarauer, Shadow Minister for Justice and Community Safety. “These numbers prove that this government’s failure to protect vulnerable youth is fueling our skyrocketing crime rates and public safety challenges.
“If we can give kids the right start and the right supports early in life, we can head some of these issues off the past. These children are our future — they deserve the very best.”
The report also found Saskatchewan also had some of the highest rates of repeat police contact overall.
Saskatchewan: 71% recontact as accused; 61% recontact as victims; 53% both victim and accused
Manitoba: 67% accused; 63% victims; 53% both
Quebec: 45% accused; 41% victims; 28% both
Ontario: 44% accused; 35% victims; 25% both
Youth aged 12 to 17 when they were first victimized were the most likely to experience later police contact. The report says other risks including marginalization, intergenerational violence, socioeconomic inequality, and barriers to education and mental health supports are also strongly associated with both victimization and offending.
Saskatchewan has the highest and fastest-growing rates of severe crime in Canada. Recently, information was made public by
Beck’s team showing Moe’s promise to hire more police through a Saskatchewan Marshals Service has actually just involved him poaching RCMP officers, not actually adding more officers to the frontlines.
Carla Beck's team is calling on the provincial government to:
Expand mental health services for children and youth victims of crime
Increase school-based and community prevention programs
Strengthen financial supports for vulnerable families
Improve access to culturally appropriate supports, particularly for Indigenous youth
Invest in early intervention programs that reduce repeat victimization and offending
“If Scott Moe is serious about safer communities, he needs to quit ignoring the issues that put vulnerable children at risk,” Sarauer said. “Real public safety means giving young victims the mental health care, family supports, and community programs they need so trauma does not become a pipeline to further harm.”
“Saskatchewan cannot afford more excuses while this generation of children is left behind.
“It’s time for change.”
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