Sexual crimes on the rise: the #metoo effect is always felt

Table of sexual crimes 2019-2024 With 562 sexual crimes recorded in the territory of the agglomeration of Longueuil in 2024, compared to 434 in 2019, an increase of 13.2%, the director of the Police Service of the agglomeration of Longueuil (SPAL), Patrick Bélanger, is of the opinion that the #metoo effect that encourages and encourages more and more women to report their aggressors is still being felt. For a second consecutive year, crimes agai…