The COVID-19 pandemic may be impacting crime rates in Kingston, according to newly released statistics from Kingston police.
As more people heed warnings to stay home and practise social distancing, police say officers are seeing some types of calls reduced drastically while others have spiked.
Kingston police Sgt. Steve Koopman says the police service noticed a big slowdown in calls last week. “I think we’ve seen the majority of people doing that — self-isolation and staying away from the downtown areas or Kingston, and outside, or their own residential areas, we saw a pretty precipitous drop-off,” Koopman said.