2007 Homicide stats in Canadian Cities

[liferanger]

Unfortunately it is a grim forum but I think alot of people find it interesting to compare these stats across Canada with other cities....:shrug:

Here in Edmonton, the news outlets have reported today 2 possible homicides in the last two days.....

[Calgarian]

Calgary is at 1 i believe

[LordMandeep]

Edmonton has surpassed Toronto for this short time.

Its at 1 and the holiday season had a lot of stuff going but it been quite for the least 8-9 days...

[jeicow]

Mississauga is at one too

[vid]

Thunder Bay is at zero. :)

I'm sorry. I'll wait until April to start bragging. Hey, with all the stabbings lately I may not get a chance!

[Smron]

I believe Winnipeg, at this time, is on pace to have 0 homicides in 2007.

[1ajs]

I believe Winnipeg, at this time, is on pace to have 0 homicides in 2007.

that would be freaking funny if that happend

[archiwei]

I might be the next one. hehehe

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[habsfan]

Could someone post the totals for 2006 for the top 15 or top 20 canadian cities?

[NutmeG]

ive only heard of one for Montreal this year but there might be more

[Canuck]

Body #4 was found in a Toronto park.

[1ajs]

i think we just had are first hopefuly we can go a long time befor the next one


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Police investigate homicide on Alfred Avenue
JAN 18 2007 02:10 PM
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Winnipeg police are investigating a homicide after the discovery of a body in a home on Alfred Avenue last night.

Police were called yesterday to check on a 36 year old man who hadn't been heard from in days.

When emergency staff went to his home in the 1100 block of Alfred they found his body inside.

His name has not been released. Details of the death are being withheld pending autopsy results. Anyone with information is asked to call police.

CJOB's Colleen Bready reporting.


EDIT:
corection that was number 2 i think


Murder Suspect Arrested
JAN 18 2007 05:10 PM
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Police have found their suspect.

A warrant for 2nd Degree Murder was issued yesterday for 31-year old Ovide Herman Moar in connection with the death of 29-year old Chadwick Lund of Winnipeg. This stems from a stabbing Tuesday night at a home in the 900 block of Alexander Avenue.

Police say Moar was located and has been arrested. He remains in custody.

CJOB News

[vid]

Murder confirmed in Fulton Boulevard incident (http://www.tbsource.com/localnews/index.asp?cid=91456)
Leith Dunick - Tb News Source | Web Posted: 1/22/2007 8:18:42 PM

The stench was overwhelming.

It was also the first sign that something was terribly wrong inside a third-floor apartment at 625 Fulton Blvd., near Lakehead University.

Rhonda Bottos lives two units down a dingy, well-worn hallway from an apartment unit where the body of an as-yet unidentified woman was found just before 5 p.m. last Saturday.

"It was bad down here," she whispered, her voice shaking slightly at the memory. "In the morning I thought it was my garbage. So I took that out, thinking that was what the problem was, but the smell was in here thick. It smelled like sewage at first.

"I don’t throw up, and I came so close it wasn’t funny. When you see people throwing up on TV when they see that, that’s exactly what it makes your body feel like doing."

The woman’s body was discovered by a relative, who called 911 requesting police assistance. The incident was not made public until Monday morning.

Bottos said she was saddened to hear that police had determined it to be murder, and sadder still that she hadn’t taken the time to get to know the victim, who moved into the worn-down building about a month ago.

"Maybe if I’d known who she was, it might have made a difference in some way. I think it brings to light just how much someone can go unnoticed and completely unknown, and how sad it is that she was there for so long before someone realized something had happened," Bottos said.

Bottos wasn’t alone. Lakehead University students Kyle Oliver and Amanda Wise and their baby live next door , and the couple said they didn’t hear anything to alert them to what occurred a few short metres away.

"We don’t know what happened," Oliver said, cradling his sleeping baby in his arms.

For Wise, it’s an isolated incident, one that doesn’t have her worried about the neighbourhood or planning to move. Bottos tells a murkier tale, and spoke of strange men knocking on her door at four in the morning, vomit-covered carpets and tenants who think nothing of urinating outside the building at all hours of the day.

She can’t wait to find a new place to live, saying she’s afraid to raise her child in the midst of all the crime surrounding her.

"I’m always worried. I’m always scared," she said. "I mean, you look at somebody the wrong way sometimes and they get mad. It’s just basically about survival here. That’s pretty much all it is. The area, the cops are here all the time. It’s really bad."

Police have yet to release the cause of death. Spokesperson Chris Adams said an autopsy will be completed in the next couple of days, but had few other details to give, other than the fact police are continuing to investigate potential leads. Police have no suspect in the case either.

"At this point there is no one in custody," said Adams of the city’s first murder in 2007. "This is a very preliminary stage for the investigation, so there is a lot of legwork that has to be done."

A total of two murders occurred in Thunder Bay in 2006.

[Taller Better]

^^ See? Thunder Bay is no slouch!

[vid]

We had three in 2005. We're still on a downward trend!

I thought last year had only one? I only know about the guy that was shot in front of his house in Northwood.

This murder happened barely a kilometre from where I live.

[1ajs]

lol vid

[vid]

lol at what?

[WhipperSnapper]

what's the suicide rate in TB?

[alps]

Halifax (actually Dartmouth) is at 1 so far.

[Greco Roman]

Chalk another one up for Edmonton :( ; that makes 3.

[ReginaGuy]

um zero i think? the freaking year just began!

[asher11]

Toronto is up to 5. A murder-suicide. Guy stabbed his partner and then jumped in front of a train.

[Canadian Mind]

what's the suicide rate in TB?

well it all depends on how fast Vid's new next-door neighbours move in after the old ones kill themselves of course. :)

[vid]

^Your post makes no sense to me? :shrug:

TB's suicide rate isn't too high, but it sky rockets once you get on to the reserve. I don't have actual numbers, it is a problem but no one here ever talks about it.

[PhilippeMtl]

Montreal is at 3.
BY borough

NDG:1
RDP:1
Lachine : 1

[liferanger]

Edmonton chalked up #4 last week. A foster mother has been charged with killing a 3yr old....pretty bad, even for Edmonton...

[SmileyBoy]

Any in Regina yet??

[Migs]

Any in Regina yet??
Nope, why do you ask?

[LordMandeep]

thats bad for Edmonton considering its ahead of Montreal and just behind Toronto...

[PhilippeMtl]

Montreal is at 4, all related to street gang. We had 3 murders in the last 5 days.

[Rusty van Reddick]

Nope, why do you ask?

He was probably asking because the thread is called "2007 Homicide Stats in Canadian Cities."

[CCF]

He was probably asking because the thread is called "2007 Homicide Stats in Canadian Cities."

Welp, we are at 0.

Sorry to dissapoint.

[vid]

Do you know what that means??

Thunder Bay is the murder capitol again!! :D

[malek]

Laval is at one.

[vid]

But Thunder Bay has less people, so our one counts more! :tup:

[drizzo_613]

1st for Ottawa..passerby found a guy stabbed to death DT

[ldoto]

London is at two.

[LordMandeep]

the recent man to get murdered in London came from my high school. I also met the guy who murdered him as well. He was a strange guy but a murderer?

[ldoto]

:previous: Good for you!:shrug:

[Canuck]

6 total for Toronto, 4 of which by guns.

[Calgarian]

Calgary is up to 3. Speaking of knowing someone who commited a murder, I knew the wack job that killed his 12yr old girlfriends family in Medicine Hat last summer. I went to high school with him, always seemd a little off but i never thought he was a killer.

[circle33]

Saskatoon has anted up.

Sounds fishy, this one...click (http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=65ee35dc-a2aa-49b7-adfa-54574c71e745&k=26800). Domestic in nature, perps caught. Streets are safe for now.

[Hed Kandi]

Hahahaha !!! Funniest thread of the year ! :notacrook:


Edmonton and Winnipeg are the shit holes of Canada . :jester:

[Greco Roman]

Edmonton and Winnipeg are the shit holes of Canada . :jester:

Real classy. :gtfo2:

[Rob D]

Calgary is up to 3. Speaking of knowing someone who commited a murder, I knew the wack job that killed his 12yr old girlfriends family in Medicine Hat last summer. I went to high school with him, always seemd a little off but i never thought he was a killer.

My parents know the most of his family. Very nice people apparently, but something went wrong with junior obviously.

[malek]

One for Longueuil

[PhilippeMtl]

6 for Montreal. All related to street gangs.

[syktron]

#7 in Montreal.... a few blocks from my home :eek:

[SteelTown]

At least 3 dead in Hamilton multiple-stabbing U
pdated Sat. Feb. 17 2007 11:32 AM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Police in Hamilton, Ont. have confirmed three deaths after an overnight multiple stabbing incident at a night club.

Two of the dead men are 18 and 19 years old, CTV News has learned.

Several others were rushed to hospital with undisclosed injuries.

The violence is alleged to have occurred at the Dizzy Weasel hip hop bar.

An employee of a nearby restaurant told CTV he saw one body on the ground covered by a tarp.

Police are investigating the deaths.

More to come...

[Canuck]

Toronto - 7
Surrounding Suburbs - 4

[PhilippeMtl]

Montreal Police Territory is at 8
Laval Police territory at 1
Longueuil Police Territory at 1

Police continue to tell us than street gang is not a problem in Montreal when 6 of the 8 homicides are related to street gangs....

[Mike K.]

Victoria has one for sure but I think there might be a second already. Cops found a body in a house but they're not saying if its suspicious or not.

[LordMandeep]

i have a question why were the early 90's such a violent time in North America.

It had record numbers of murders in all of the American Cities almost a thousand in the LA and New York, however it even spread to Toronto which had a record 82 murders in 1992. We only got close to that number in 2005, but last year and the other years we had almost 12-20 fewer murders.The population has gone up in most of these cities as well.

[Doady]

i have a question why were the early 90's such a violent time in North America.

Probably because of recession

[malek]

yep bad economy = more crime :)

[MonkeyRonin]

It was the tail end of the crack epidemic as well.

[malek]

now 9 in montreal, again gang related.

[syktron]

i have a question why were the early 90's such a violent time in North America.

It had record numbers of murders in all of the American Cities almost a thousand in the LA and New York, however it even spread to Toronto which had a record 82 murders in 1992. We only got close to that number in 2005, but last year and the other years we had almost 12-20 fewer murders.The population has gone up in most of these cities as well.

The war for control of the lucrative crack market.

[vid]

Police mum on homicide case
Tb News Source | Web Posted: 2/21/2007 8:00:30 PM
http://www.tbsource.com/Localnews/index.asp?cid=92725

The investigation into Thunder Bay's first homicide of 2007 is now a month old and police still appear reluctant to talk about what, if any progress is being made to solve the case.

The body of 45-year-old Karla Desrosier was found in a Fulton Boulevard apartment on January 20 but news of the discovery was not released until two days later. Other than releasing the victim's name and confirming the body was found by an unnamed family member, police are saying little else.

While they claim they are still awaiting results of forensic tests and have interviewed several people, no other information has been made available. They have even refused to confirm the apartment where the body was found was the victim's home. Police spokesperson Chris Adams will only say all other information regarding the crime is being withheld for 'evidentiary reasons.'

Still at one.

[Greco Roman]

Edmonton is now at 7 murders.

[Canuck]

Toronto - 7
Surrounding Suburbs - 4
No change thus far.

[LordMandeep]

well we can say that the guns and gangs porblem in Toronto is still an issue, but nothing compared to before like 2005 to early 2006.

[PhilippeMtl]

Montreal is at 11.
Longueuil (Brossard) is at 2.
Laval still at 1.

[basilbrush]

Edmonton is now at 7 murders.

#6 was quite gruesome - police broke in while the victim was being sawed into pieces in his bathtub by his three attackers. Police were called by the person occupying the apartment below who had noticed blood seeping through his ceiling.



*wow! ...and this is my 800th post?

[mmmatt]

Any in Regina yet??

Yes now...

1 total for Regina

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/02/09/murder.html

[mmmatt]

I couldnt find the 2006 #s anywhere...but heres the 2005 ones:

2005 Homicides, Census metropolitan area (CMA)

500,000+ population

Edmonton

# = 44
Rate = 4.29

Winnipeg

# = 26
Rate = 3.72

Vancouver

# = 62
Rate = 2.88

Calgary

# = 26
Rate = 2.45

Toronto

# = 104
Rate = 1.96

Hamilton

# = 11
Rate = 1.58

Montréal

# = 48
Rate = 1.31

Ottawa

# = 11
Rate = 1.25

Québec

# = 5
Rate = 0.69

100,000 to 499,999 population

Regina

# = 8
Rate = 3.97


Saskatoon

# = 9
Rate = 3.68


Kingston

# = 5
Rate = 3.24


St. Catharines–Niagara

# = 14
Rate = 3.22


London

# = 14
Rate = 2.97


Halifax

# = 10
Rate = 2.63


Abbotsford

# = 4
Rate = 2.46


Thunder Bay

# = 3
Rate = 2.41


Windsor

# = 5
Rate = 1.50


U]Kitchener[/U]

# = 7
Rate = 1.44


Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury

# = 2
Rate = 1.24


St. John's

# = 2
Rate = 1.10


Gatineau

# = 3
Rate = 1.05


Saguenay

# = 1
Rate = 0.68


Victoria

# = 2
Rate = 0.60


Oshawa

# = 1
Rate = 0.30


Sherbrooke

# = 0
Rate = 0.00


Trois-Rivières

# = 0
Rate = 0.00


Saint John

# = 0
Rate = 0.00

[LordMandeep]

Toronto

# = 104
Rate = 1.96

strange this was the worst year in a decade here and it appears were still better off then most of the countries.

[Elwood]

Edmonton is now at 7 murders.

We can regretfully add another one to this list ... a guy shot his wife's cousin in a downtown apartment last night.
What's that, five in ten days?

Watch out New Orleans!

[Champion3]

Calgary is up to 3. Speaking of knowing someone who commited a murder, I knew the wack job that killed his 12yr old girlfriends family in Medicine Hat last summer. I went to high school with him, always seemd a little off but i never thought he was a killer.
Funny, I must have been going to that high school at the same time as you, then.

[mersar]

Calgary has one more, mother killed her teenage daughter. Still pending on another that is being investigated thats suspicious.

[PhilippeMtl]

Calgary has one more, mother killed her teenage daughter.

Same story for # 12, only the second not linked with street gangs.

EDIT:They are not sure if it is a suicide or no, so we dropped to 11.

[LordMandeep]

All is quite in Toronto as it is still at 7, but we can add one more for 5 for the suburbs.

to comapre to the big American cities...
New York is at 51 (8 million people)
LA is at 50 (4 million people)
Chicago is at 41 (2.8 million people)
Philly is at 60 (1.5 million people)

Philly is wacked man!

[PhilippeMtl]

All is quite in Toronto as it is still at 7, but we can add one more for 5 for the suburbs.

to comapre to the big American cities...
New York is at 51 (8 million people)
LA is at 50 (4 million people)
Chicago is at 41 (2.8 million people)
Philly is at 60 (1.5 million people)

Philly is wacked man!


If you add Camden and other suburbs, I am sure they are not far from 100.. Very sad, Philadelphia is a too pretty city to be in this situation...

[ScottFromCalgary]

#6 was quite gruesome - police broke in while the victim was being sawed into pieces in his bathtub by his three attackers. Police were called by the person occupying the apartment below who had noticed blood seeping through his ceiling.

Holy fuck...what the hell is going on up there?

[mersar]

And one more for Calgary, and one pending still. Latest was a 18 year old girl apparently killed by her ex-boyfriend who may have attempted to take his own life afterwards. He's in hospital now, but CPS isn't saying much yet aside from he hasn't talked to them yet.

Do we have an actual number for Calgary? I keep hearing different values depending on which source (anywhere from 4 to 7 I keep hearing), and CPS hasn't mentioned a total this year in any press release yet.

[Rusty van Reddick]

Mersar, the one in Citadel makes 5. If the elderly guy in the SE was murdered (still haven't heard), that would make 6. Bad few days- I think Feb's almost nonstop snow made everybody a little crazy... some a lot crazy....

[drew]

Seems to be the opposite effect in Winnipeg. It's been a cold snowy winter thus far, and our the number of murders compared to last year are at 3 this year, down from 5 last year at this time...

(thank-you "crimestat"...)

[PhilippeMtl]

# 3 in Brossard. A policeman has been shot to dead an a second one is severly injured during a drug bust this morning. A third person, one of the suspects, is also injured.



Cop dies after being shot in the head in drug bust near Montreal


BROSSARD, Que. (CP) - There are unconfirmed reports that a police officer has died after being shot in a drug bust south of Montreal.


Montreal radio station CJAD says it has learned from sources that the officer died after being shot in Brossard, Que. Two officers from the police force in Laval, north of Montreal, were conducting a drug investigation in Brossard when they were shot.

At least one suspect is in custody and another is also injured.

Laval police are holding a news conference later today.

Police say gunfire was exchanged in a residential section of the community during one of eight drug investigations in Laval and Brossard.

It has been nearly 15 months since the Laval police force was shaken by the shooting death of Const. Valerie Gignac, 25.

Gignac was the first woman police officer to die in the line of duty since Montreal Const. Odette Pinard was slain in 1995.

[LordMandeep]

the snow has chilled things in Toronto

[Greco Roman]

Toronto gets snow? :haha:

Just kidding, folks.

[LordMandeep]

yeah about 15cm fell and some freezing rain. Schools been out for 2 days for most kids and the roads were light on friday. A lot of people stayed home.
Hotels were booked solid downtown, Thrusday night, as it took 2-3 hrs to get home because of the snow. Some people thought lets just stay near work.

lol, only in Toronto, does some snow cause an emergency...

[ReginaGuy]

Its been snowing here for almost 4 days straight. Not a lot of snow, but constand light snow. Its seriously driving me insane

[Rusty van Reddick]

yeah about 15cm fell and some freezing rain. Schools been out for 2 days for most kids and the roads were light on friday. A lot of people stayed home.
Hotels were booked solid downtown, Thrusday night, as it took 2-3 hrs to get home because of the snow. Some people thought lets just stay near work.

lol, only in Toronto, does some snow cause an emergency...

We would never get 15cm of WET heavy dangerous snow AND freezing rain atop in Calgary. If we did, the city would grind to a halt- not only do we have next to zero snow removal; we also have disastrously incompetent winter drivers. Bad mix.

I lived in Toronto when we had the 100+ cm in three consecutive blizzards. The national guard (a resource used in Washington DC when they had 4 INCHES of snow, people) were needed. My neighbour died in that mess when an ambulance could not make it down my street (Follis Ave, west of the Annex). She died. It wasn't a joke.

[vid]

About 10cm of snow here in TBay didn't stop someone from being stabbed half to death and wandering a few blocks to their apartment. Had the blood not been discovered by a neighbour, it would have been number two. A woman was charged for attempted murder.

We have snow removal steady, graters have been going by every 20 minutes and a plow cleared out the back alley about an hour ago. :P

[LordMandeep]

so your telling me Montreal and Toronto have better snow clearing then Calgary???

back to topic, the last murder was on Valentines day....

[ScottFromCalgary]

^^ We spend half of what Edmonton spends on snow removal. Chinooks come along every two to three weeks and melt a lot of the snow, so we just kinda tough it out.

[malek]

you guys talking about 15 cms ?? hahahahahaahhahaah did you call the army ?;)

we got 34 cms yesterday during the day, I remember driving on dry highways yesterday evening, snow was being removed in the night in downtown and major boulevards.

[mersar]

Another possible for Calgary, preliminary ruling on a elderly woman found dead last night is homicide, plus they fished a body out of the river yesterday as well (likely suicide, but you never know). Plus still no word on the guy who died last week.

[LordMandeep]

15 cm is no problem, its the damn freezing rain...

[b13]

yes and they have to close some roads near the CN Tower because ice is falling of the tower. lol

[vid]

Canada. We turned a thread about murder into a discussion about weather.

[mersar]

Well the weather is a fairly significant killer :P

And Calgary is at 6 now officially.

[b13]

what is Toronto at?

[LordMandeep]

7 , last was valentines day. The gun crime problem has been solved so far..... (DRAMATIC MUSIC)!!!!

Americans can fanthom the fact just because you have millions of people doesn't mean its acceptable to have 100 or more murders every year.

[TheMeltyMan]

High murder rates are a bragging right in the US for yuppies in the suburbs or in the posh neighbourhoods. Philly kids think they get rep because they average some 1.5 murders a day.

[LordMandeep]

8 for the city, 6 for the outer suburbs.

Also i found out that Stockholm, Sweden has 71 murders last year...

[vid]

I wonder if Stockholm's rise would be because of the increase in Iraqi immigrants? Likely not as they're mostly professionals though. Rather perplexing. One usually doesn't associate murder and Scandinavia.

"Because, you know, Vikings NEVER killed anyone! :rolleyes:"

[vid]

Mother witnesses son's death
Tb News Source | Web Posted: 3/12/2007 2:00:55 PM
http://www.tbsource.com/localnews/index.asp?cid=93473

A mother's sixth sense proved right and she was a witness to the stabbing death of her son over the weekend.

The 24-year-old victim was raised in Kenora and was killed in a back alley fight in Winnipeg. Greg Skead was stabbed several times after spending the evening drinking at a local bar with friends and his mother.

His mother, Genevieve Skead said there was no trouble at the bar but she sensed things weren't right between her son and one of his friends. When they left the bar to go home, the young men told her they were going elsewhere, so she followed them.

She saw someone fall to the ground and ran to the laneway where she found her son. The young man's parents say they expect to return their son's body to Kenora to be buried.

A 22-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder.

Chalk one up for Winnipeg. :(

[b13]

i think Toronto is at 13? can someone confirm this?

[LordMandeep]

no its a 8 for the city plus 6 for its burbs (mississauga,York region, Oshawa)