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Anytime there is a lot of money available for engaging in illegal activities, you are going to get gangs fighting over the spoils. They fight over drugs and prostitution and slavery and the illegal weapons trade. Canada has a drug problem and prostitution and slavery and illegal weapons, so yes, there will be someone fighting over the enormous profits, and the fighting is most likely going to be violent. Drug gangs don't decide who gets the territory by seeing who is the winner in a game of poker.
Almost all the shooting victims are targetted.
I have not heard of any random shooting in our neighbourhood.
Just beware that strange things happen in unexpected places.
New highrises are mushrooming, and each new unit sells around seven digits and above.
I just checked and the video is still there. Police reported that a 21-year old girl was physically assaulted by a stranger in an elevator of a residential tower, and wanted the public to identify the assailant. Prior to the Police report, someone who identified as a friend of the alleged victim had posted the video asking for help to identify the assailant on the social media. A while later, another poster identified as a friend of the alleged assailant clarified that the two met on a street just after midnight, and the girl invited the boy to walk to her place. When they arrived at her floor, he was accosted and robbed by several guys already waiting for him there. The Police must have found out later that no stranger could enter that residential tower without an ACCESS card, and the elevator would stop only at the designated floor of the resident's unit.
The crime in the media is totally sensationalized and people hear about the news the moment it happens due to the 24h news cycle and the internet. Crime and violent crime has been declining since the early 90s. Big cities in Canada are the safest they ever have been if you look at the numbers. People are just quicker to freak out if it’s youth gangs, understandably cause no one wants their kid to get caught up in that. Still even youth gangs are minuscule here compared to the states. Show someone from any big American city Surrey BC, Montreal North or Scarborough and tell them it’s “the hood” and they’ll laugh in your face.
Toronto's Little Italy is centered on College Street West. It extends roughly north to Bloor Street West, between Ossington Avenue and Bathurst Street.
I don't know if it's still there, but when I lived in Toronto, there was a coffee shop in that neighbourhood that you did not go into unless you were both Italian and a mobster. But there are plenty of other great eateries in the neighbourhood, so there was never any need to go into that coffee shop.
Thanks. I did not have time to explore that when I was there. Next time!
For a small country population wise there is a lot of gangs.
Really? In order to know that, you'd have to know the average gang/100k population of countries. So, what is it?
You know, the city of New York has gangs. And you know, Canada has 5x as many people as the city of New York. How does the number of gangs in New York city compare to the number of gangs in Canada? You have no idea, do you? So how can you possibly make any assertions as to whether or not Canada has comparatively 'a lot' of gangs?
PS - Canada ranks about 40th out of about 200 countries in terms of population. In other words, it has more people than most countries. In terms of sheer numbers, it's almost right at the global average for population. So it's not a 'small country population wise'.
The crime in the media is totally sensationalized and people hear about the news the moment it happens due to the 24h news cycle and the internet. Crime and violent crime has been declining since the early 90s. Big cities in Canada are the safest they ever have been if you look at the numbers. People are just quicker to freak out if it’s youth gangs, understandably cause no one wants their kid to get caught up in that. Still even youth gangs are minuscule here compared to the states. Show someone from any big American city Surrey BC, Montreal North or Scarborough and tell them it’s “the hood” and they’ll laugh in your face.
After a fairly long period of decline, violent crime has actually begun to tick upwards again in the past couple of years.
No one in Toronto, for example, would say that violence is going down in the city.
After a fairly long period of decline, violent crime has actually begun to tick upwards again in the past couple of years.
No one in Toronto, for example, would say that violence is going down in the city.
I didn’t realize that. Still, is it as high as it was in say 2003, for example? Big cities in general seemed a lot rougher back then with more street prostitutes, biker gangs, etc. I’d be surprised if statistically we’re seeing a reversal of the long term decline or just a blip
After a fairly long period of decline, violent crime has actually begun to tick upwards again in the past couple of years.
No one in Toronto, for example, would say that violence is going down in the city.
There have been some notable instances of random attacks of violence on the TTC over the last year. However, not sure if the overall crime rate is up but I don't think so. Toronto's crime rate isn't even in the top 20 in Canada. Its homicide rate isn't in the top 15 either. If I were looking at violent cities in relative terms in Canada - I wouldn't be pointing towards Toronto, i'd be looking at Regina and Winnipeg.
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