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Originally Posted by esquire
Up to 40 now, and to me it looks like 6 of those have been outside the pre-unicity boundaries of Winnipeg including the most recent one which was in Waverley West. So at most 34/40 in old Winnipeg itself.
But if you're going to fudge the numbers for Winnipeg by giving stats for the high crime area, why wouldn't you do the same for NYC, LA, Minneapolis or Chicago? I mean, Chicago is up to 443 this year, and most of those are concentrated in a relatively small area too.
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You're not including Elmwood, which was part of the pre-Unicity City of Winnipeg. It had joined in 1906. There have been three in that area. Four now have happened in the suburbs, two in Fort Garry , one in St. Boniface (Windsor Park) and one in St. James. So no, it was in fact 36 of 39, now 36 of 40.
Before commenting, always be sure to check your facts. The link DOES give the stats for the cities, which in in the vast majority of cases in the U.S. are the inner cities. Very few "Unicity" forms of municipal government in the U.S., unlike in Canada. Jacksonville is the only major city that I can think of, Indianapolis to a lesser degree as it has just about half its metro population in the city. So for Chicago, the figure is for the City of Chicago, pop. 2.7 million, Atlanta for the City of Atlanta pop. 500,000, for St. Louis, the City of St. Louis pop. 300,000. The figures are not for the respective metros which have appox. 9.5, 6.0 and 2.8 million population respectively. When people think of the Twin Cities, seldom do they understand that just the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have just about 425,000 and 310,000 population respectively. The current incarnation of Winnipeg is essentially a metropolitan area, it having as of 2016 in excess of 90% of the population of the Winnipeg CMA.
My goodness, if Chicago is up to 443 for a population of 2,700,000 that gives a rate of 16.4 per 100,000 ,which is lower than Winnipeg's 18.0! Far from "fudging", I am providing a more accurate and fair comparison.