Article content “It was a very different year than other years, so we weren’t expecting anything specifically,” Warren Silver, an analyst at Statistics Canada’s Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, told the Whig-Standard on Thursday. “We just receive crime numbers as they come into us by police and we report those numbers whether they go up or down. … We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Crime severity index, hate crime increased in Kingston area in 2020 Back to video “It’s interesting to see these changes that have occurred nationally and also provincially and the CMA level.”