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Originally Posted by ilcapo
What are the patterns in Toronto and the rest of the canadian cities? Is there a significant difference between the murders in Toronto and Vancouver for example?
Also what are the hotspots for gun crime historically? Specific areas?
Judging from a map i saw, most shootings took place in downtown which came as a surprise to me .
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Toronto has varied over time, but during the last decade has mostly wandered btw 60-70 murders in a typical year with a couple of higher outliers.
That's slightly fewer murders than in the late 70s/early 80s and Toronto is now 50% bigger.
That said, shootings have increased.
Most murder is related to gang/drug activity, but certainly not exclusive to that.
In terms of geography; like any city Toronto has its poorer areas and murder is often more common in said areas, but for the most part it isn't hyper-concentrated.
If I walked you through Toronto's worst areas, they wouldn't be super pretty but you wouldn't feel unsafe, especially in the daytime.
Downtown is still the City's entertainment/shopping hub.
Though there are major suburban nodes; you do get people who don't like each other running across each other there from time to time; as well as the normal problems with a district high in nightlife; particularly when the bars let out.
But again, nothing that is typically super problematic.....unless you're the unlucky soul, wrong place/wrong time.
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I've spent time in lots of other Canadian Cities but wouldn't feel fit to comment on their patters in detail.
Except to say, for the last several years, Murders have been less frequent per capita in both Montreal and Vancouver vs Toronto.
Canada's higher risk large'ish cities have been Winnipeg and Edmonton or for a smaller centre, Thunder Bay.
Edmonton seems to have calmed a bit......but Winnipeg is having another bad year.
By the standards of most U.S. centres even those higher-crime centres would be fairly moderate.
But by Canadian standards remedial action is in order.
https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-ne...n-2019-1999146