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Toronto is at 43 murders for the year. In 2007 we had 86 murders, so if we have no more this year we will have dropped our murder count 50% in 4 years.
ARE YOU SERIOUS??? Did you forget to put a 3 or at least a 2 or 1 in front of all those numbers??? Not saying your lying or anything but that doesn't even sound right (at least not for America). That's amazing for a population of 2.6 million.
nope, Canada is pretty safe, in montreal, so far this year, only 39 murders in the island with 1.9 millions population... The crime in Canada is not much different than in the US, the thing is that there are way much more peoples involve in crime in usa than in Canada that's why the murder rate is so low... but the robery, thief, auto thief ect... are on par with the us one... in fact, Montreal is one of the most unsafe north american cities for vehicule thief
This surprised me. The suburban areas of Chicago (7 million people) have the lowest violent crime rate of any suburban areas of the 100 largest metro areas in the country. They're not only the lowest, they're almost 33% lower than the second safest suburban areas in the country - Milwaukee.
I knew the burbs here were extremely safe, but I didn't realize just how safe. I remember reading that DuPage County went 13 months without a murder, and that county has around 1,000,000 people.
Some of the biggest cities suburban (metro area less central city) violent crime rate per 100,000:
Chicago: 269
Milwaukee: 395
Indianapolis: 426
Madison: 500
Cleveland: 637
New York: 644
Denver: 778
Boston: 961
Los Angeles: 971
San Fran: 994
Seattle: 1,019
Philly: 1,028
Washington DC: 1,030
Phoenix: 1,063
San Diego: 1,119
Dallas: 1,191
Atlanta: 1,309
Detroit: 1,358
Las Vegas: 1,502
Miami: 1,592
Houston: 1,603
New Orleans: 1,635
Nashville: 1,852
Virginia Beach: 2,094
Memphis: 2,171
Little Rock: 2,415
It's difficult if not impossible to focus specifically on reducing the murder rate. Murder rate is dependent on such factors as:
-income inequality
-level of poverty (especially severe poverty)
-economic opportunity (especially for young people)
-percentage of the population that is in prime "crime committing" years (this is one of the reasons violent crime rates have been dropping, a smaller percentage of the population right now is in this age bracket compared to before)
-emergency response times
....amongst other factors. For places with high murder rates, there needs to be a focus on the reasons behind the murders.
My thought is that what is taking Philly so long in figuring this out, especially since they are so close to NYC. They both share the same urban/suburban--SUBURBS (NJ). Joke, by the way, but you get what I'm saying.. I just don't understand the political climate in Philly. NY's murder rate has been declining since the early nineties and LA has for about five years now and Chicago as of recently has been. What is taking Philly so long to jump on board and impliment these more efficient approaches? It seems as if Philadelphila (as a city, political system, entity, etc) doesn't want to reduce its crime. They want to spruce up center city, but do nothing to many of the other neighborhoods. What they fail to realize is if they concentrated fixing up the more neglected neighborhoods, instead of the already fixed, improved and gentrified Center city that that would only bring many more positives...Just don't know what is so wrong with the political system in Philly. And this is nothing against Philly. I like Philly. I just think they focus too much attention to certain neighborhoods and continually neglect the ones that need it the most.
Your right the bad neighborhoods of Philly and the Middle East coast seem to get nothing but neglect.
Same should be said from Philly to Chester thru Wilmington and down to B-More.
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