Homicide stats in Canadian Cities - Page 100

Darkoshvilli · #**1981** Posted **Dec 2, 2013, 10:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by Spoolmak

Surrey broke its record just a few days ago of 23 murders so far in 2013. Old record was 21 murders.

Jezzus Kraist 23 murders in a Canadian suburb! Thats just 4 less than Montreal with 2 million people. Im surprised the national media isn't all over Surrey for this.

vid · #**1982** Posted **Dec 2, 2013, 12:18 PM**

Surrey looked so nice when I was there, though. You'd never guess that a city with three separate businesses that sell nothing but pick-up truck toppers (that are visible from the Skytrain; there could be more) would be such a den of inequity.

giallo · #**1983** Posted **Dec 3, 2013, 3:34 AM**

There are some really nice parts of Surrey. The mayor has done some amazing things in the city, but there's just too much gang activity there. Drive-bys and public shootings have become ridiculously common (for Canada anyway).

Spoolmak · #**1984** Posted **Dec 4, 2013, 12:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by vid

Surrey looked so nice when I was there, though. You'd never guess that a city with three separate businesses that sell nothing but pick-up truck toppers (that are visible from the Skytrain; there could be more) would be such a den of inequity.

That area is by far the ugliest part of surrey, but a main gateway to the city from the metro area. Its what gives surrey its bad rep. Oh yeah and all the murders.

Spoolmak · #**1985** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 11:08 AM**

#24 for surrey when a body was found on 102ave on 27th of Dec.
With a population of 502,000, the murder rate is only 4.8. Not that bad really.

Darkoshvilli · #**1986** Posted **Dec 31, 2013, 12:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by Spoolmak

#24 for surrey when a body was found on 102ave on 27th of Dec.
With a population of 502,000, the murder rate is only 4.8. Not that bad really.

Its pretty bad by Canadian standards.

28 in Montreal. Barring any murders today or tomorrow, that's a new modern low.

begratto · #**1987** Posted **Dec 31, 2013, 1:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by Darkoshvilli

Its pretty bad by Canadian standards.

28 in Montreal. Barring any murders today or tomorrow, that's a new modern low.

65 for the entire province of Quebec (including Montreal). Very low number for 8M people.

vid · #**1988** Posted **Dec 31, 2013, 2:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by Spoolmak

#24 for surrey when a body was found on 102ave on 27th of Dec.
With a population of 502,000, the murder rate is only 4.8. Not that bad really.

Compared to the 468,251 people it had the last time all of its people were counted, it's even worse than that! (5.1) Thunder Bay was declared murder capital of Canada for 2012 with a rate of 5.3 (6 homicides for 114,091 people in the area covered by local police).

Interesting to see that Surrey's local police force is the RCMP. I don't recall seeing any police in Surrey at all when I was there. I saw very few police in all of Vancouver, actually.

travis3000 · #**1989** Posted **Dec 31, 2013, 3:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by begratto

65 for the entire province of Quebec (including Montreal). Very low number for 8M people.

That's actually insanely impressive. Wow! Quebec really is a safe place.

Toronto is at #56 I believe which is slightly higher than last years. Still not bad for a city of 2.7 million people.

Dmajackson · #**1990** Posted **Dec 31, 2013, 5:22 AM**

The latest information I can find for Halifax puts it at 8 for 2013. Last years number was 12 so unless something really bad happens tomorrow we should be at ~1.95/100'000.

Denscity · #**1991** Posted **Dec 31, 2013, 9:32 AM**

Surrey 24
Vancouver: 6
!!!!!!

GORDBO · #**1992** Posted **Dec 31, 2013, 3:31 PM**

Winnipeg has been surprisingly quite this year. Not sure what the total is , think its around 20 maybe less.

thebasketballgeek · #**1993** Posted **Dec 31, 2013, 8:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by GORDBO

Winnipeg has been surprisingly quite this year. Not sure what the total is , think its around 20 maybe less.

Yea you're almost bang on. Winnipeg has 19 and if I use the census population (663,617) the rate would still be pretty high at 3.49. But if I use the City of Winnipeg estimates (714,100) the rate would be even higher at 3.76.

Dmajackson · #**1994** Posted **Dec 31, 2013, 11:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by Denscity

Surrey 24
Vancouver: 6
!!!!!!

It's a real shame about the latest victim in Surrey. No one ever deserves to be murdered but being randomly attacked while picking up your son from a hockey game is just despicable.

Xelebes · #**1995** Posted **Jan 1, 2014, 12:29 AM**

Edmonton has its murder count down this year to 28, which works out to 3.4 per 100 000.

vid · #**1996** Posted **Jan 1, 2014, 1:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by thebasketballgeek

Yea you're almost bang on. Winnipeg has 19 and if I use the census population (663,617) the rate would still be pretty high at 3.49. But if I use the City of Winnipeg estimates (714,100) the rate would be even higher at 3.76.

19 murders / 6.63617 hundredthousands = 2.86 murders per hundredthousand
19 murders / 7.14100 hundredthousands = 2.66 murders per hundredthousand

28 / 3.4 = 8.23 hundredthousands for Edmonton; their actual population is 817,000. The difference is a rounding error.

trebor204 · #**1997** Posted **Jan 1, 2014, 5:53 AM**

Winnipeg has had 22 in 2013.

http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/features/homicides/
Click on the Table Tab

thebasketballgeek · #**1998** Posted **Jan 1, 2014, 1:40 PM**

Thats weird I counted 19 on the map. Well 22 in 2013 is a improvement from 30 in 2012.

trebor204 · #**1999** Posted **Jan 1, 2014, 5:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by thebasketballgeek

Thats weird I counted 19 on the map. Well 22 in 2013 is a improvement from 30 in 2012.

There were 3 double homicides in 2013, but they show up as a point on the map. Hence they showed up as 19 points.

vid · #**2000** Posted **Jan 1, 2014, 7:15 PM**

For Winnipeg:

City (2011 Census)
22 murders / 6.63617 hundredthousands = 3.31 murders per hundredthousand

City (Municipal estimate)
22 murders / 7.14100 hundredthousands = 3.08 murders per hundredthousand

Thunder Bay had 3 this year, as far as I can find.

In May, a 30 year old man was stabbed to death by someone he knew
In July, a 30 year old woman was beaten to death by an unidentified 17 year old who was finally arrested several weeks ago
In October, a 38 year old man was run over and killed by someone he knew

(2011 Census population)
3 murders / 1.08359 hundredthousands = 2.78 murders per hundredthousand

Last year we had 7 homicides, for a rate of 6.46. That is a 63% drop in homicides in one year! Remarkable!