Crime in Calgary - Page 9

Radley77 · #**161** Posted **Aug 8, 2012, 3:40 PM**

Nose Hill Park confrontation makes visitors feel unsafe

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Nose+Hi...#ixzz22y7tzCfA

Yup, really feel too bad for this American tourist who opines on Calgary's lack of gun culture. Detroit with it's 212 murders so far this year and Calgary with 5.

kw5150 · #**162** Posted **Aug 8, 2012, 3:52 PM**

That story makes me so happy that I am not that guy. He must lead a horrible, untrustful life........and then to make it a news story? That is the real crime.

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Originally Posted by Radley77

Nose Hill Park confrontation makes visitors feel unsafe

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Nose+Hi...#ixzz22y7tzCfA

Yup, really feel too bad for this American tourist who opines on Calgary's lack of gun culture. Detroit with it's 212 murders so far this year and Calgary with 5.

Calgarian · #**163** Posted **Aug 8, 2012, 5:01 PM**

I love the reaction that ridiculous letter is getting. Thank God he didn't have a gun otherwise those "two guys" would be dead or in the hospital. That gun toting redneck should keep his ignorant ass in the US lol.

Radley77 · #**164** Posted **Aug 8, 2012, 8:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

I love the reaction that ridiculous letter is getting. Thank God he didn't have a gun otherwise those "two guys" would be dead or in the hospital. That gun toting redneck should keep his ignorant ass in the US lol.

Agreed and am very thankful he didn't have a gun. Another stat of interest is that Calgary has only 161 officers per 100,000 people whereas Detroit has 400 officers per 100,000 people. Bottomline is Calgary gets a much less violent crime rate (one of the safest cities in the world) AND with much less resources. Canadians can trace this value back to the RCMP of maintaining order during the Klondike days.

Very sad though the amount of gun violence in the US and the political influence that non-profit tax-exempt organizations like the NRA carry.

AB Born · #**165** Posted **Aug 20, 2012, 2:17 AM**

We were leaving Taste of Calgary tonight and there were quite a few police cars with the yellow police tape surrounding the old Princeton sales centre and parking lot. I thought I saw a blood stain in the parking lot but wasn't sure. At the time of writing this I can't find anything in the Herald etc... Wonder what happened...

DizzyEdge · #**166** Posted **Aug 20, 2012, 5:07 AM**

maybe this?

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/st...443/story.html

kw5150 · #**167** Posted **Aug 20, 2012, 3:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by DizzyEdge

maybe this?

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/st...443/story.html

Argument about the peace bridge got out of control?

Hopefully the person is ok.

DizzyEdge · #**168** Posted **Aug 20, 2012, 9:24 PM**

I just think it's funny that the peace bridge was in the article just to have a better headline.

suburbia · #**169** Posted **Aug 20, 2012, 9:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by DizzyEdge

I just think it's funny that the peace bridge was in the article just to have a better headline.

I don't think it was just for a better headline, rather, it was the closest landmark to use.

DizzyEdge · #**170** Posted **Aug 21, 2012, 9:49 PM**

You're probably right actually.

suburbia · #**171** Posted **Sep 4, 2012, 6:34 PM**

Multiple victims in stabbing attack - one dead:
http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/stabbing-v...ified-1.941393

DizzyEdge · #**172** Posted **Sep 4, 2012, 10:27 PM**

What is the murder count at now? It may be just my imagination but it feels like there has been an uptake in shitty behaviour in the city both innercity and in the suburbs recently, although maybe that's just due to warmer weather leading to more interaction and shorter tempers.

MarkL · #**173** Posted **Sep 9, 2012, 4:13 AM**

More violence in Calgary suburbs:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...police-se.html

When will the mayhem end? Where will the children play?

suburbia · #**174** Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 3:31 PM**

Inner city arsonist:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...rary-fire.html

Sexual assaults:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...393/story.html

Murder in an inner city rooming house:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/cr...972/story.html

Where will the children play?

kw5150 · #**175** Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 4:32 PM**

The suburbs are a crime in themselves.

http://ionenewsone.files.wordpress.c.../08/suburb.jpg

suburbia · #**176** Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 9:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by kw5150

The suburbs are a crime in themselves.

Please keep to the subject.

Spring2008 · #**177** Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 10:35 PM**

So your referencing a small third floor library washroom fire, an attempted sexual assault west of downtown in the middle of nowhere, and a story about a murder that happened as far back as 2006 as part of your continuous effort to make inner city look bad? Get over it.

While i hate seeing anybody harmed and/or crime to happen in general, your views on inner city crime in Calgary come off as extremely exaggerated; and i would bet that most crimes do happen outside of the inner-city, but you strategically avoid talking about them. Also, do you not realize Calgary's one of the safest cities in Canada, and the world? Comparable to some of the safer countries in Europe. Which to me says a lot, being that Calgary's part of the prairies after all, and has much lower crime rates across the board compared to any Prairie city. Heck there's been three inner city murders in Edmonton this past week. You'd be going crazy on this thread right now. And i'm not even saying Edmonton's that bad either. Look at places like Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago etc-you're often times looking at multiple homicides, dozens of aggravated assaults, and other serious crimes such as rape on a daily basis.

Spring2008 · #**178** Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 10:43 PM**

Also, why does this thread even exist? To make inner-city look bad?

Can somebody just start a Strictly Suburban thread, so that the same few people can talk about all the negatives about anything remotely urban, and how great suburbs are? I don't expect everybody to agree with every inner project, policy, initiative etc, but if the same people are consistently against anything happening in the inner-city, why even bother in this urban forum?

MichaelS · #**179** Posted **Sep 12, 2012, 4:15 AM**

I have said it before in this thread, nothing prevents you guys from posting articles about crime in the suburbs. This thread is not strictly for the inner city.

suburbia · #**180** Posted **Sep 12, 2012, 5:09 AM**

Wow! Didn't realize the extent of the assault previously. Unbelievable!

http://www.660news.com/news/local/ar...brutal-beating

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because of the extent of her injuries they were only recently able to interview the victim.

"She was brutally beaten and has been in hospital since Thursday, so that gives you an indication of the severity of the injuries," explains Jepson.

Where is this Pumphouse Road exactly?