Crime Prevention Ottawa and the FCA recently put together some articles on dealing with crime and safety in your neighbourhoods from a CA perspective.
Here are the articles in English:
https://fca-fac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/CPO1704E.pdf
et en français:
https://fca-fac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/CPO1704F.pdf
For more information on assessing crime data check out the Ottawa neighbourhood study here.