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The murder-free stretch in Quebec City was actually longer than 12 months, and actually spanned (IIRC) from October 2006 to July 2008. |
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Apples and Pommes I guess. |
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^ New Year's brings out the best in people.
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Also, I think 2004 had one murder in the CMA. The son of Nishnawbe Aski Nation's chief was killed in Fort William First Nation during a summer, but I can't remember which year exactly. I'm pretty sure it was 2004, though. |
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yakuza and hk gangs where you at ?
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Nice to see reputations still massively exceed reality.
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Murders aside, regarding reputations, here is a sample of a typical stories in The Winnipeg Free Press, from today's online edition. As a lifelong resident, I must say that indeed, Winnipeg deserves its bad reputation of violence and crime. It's an unfortunate reputation, but it's so true. "Welcome to Winnipeg: WATCH YOUR BACK!"
Man charged following incident near downtown bus stop By: Staff Writer 12:19 PM A man has been charged in connection with an incident on Jan. 3 near a downtown bus stop where an intoxicated male wielding a knife was verbally aggressive and threatening toward a 55-year-old father and his three children. Trent Chubb, 20, of Winnipeg has been charged with assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bre..._bus_stop.html Man charged in stabbing, bear-spray attack By: Staff Writer 11:44 AM Winnipeg police have made an arrest in a stabbing and bear-spray incident on Sherbrook Street last week. Police were called to the 500 block on Sherbrook Street after reports a man had bear-sprayed several victims before stabbing a 29-year-old male man in the upper body. The victim was transported to hospital in critical condition but was upgraded to stable and is expected to recover. Police announced Monday that Curtis Wayne Henderson of Winnipeg has been charged with numerous offences including assault with a weapon, aggravated assault, assault causing bodily harm, uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm, unauthorized possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and a number of court-order breaches in connection with the incident. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bre...ay_attack.html Robbers attack bus passengers, driver By: Staff Writer 12:06 PM | Comments (0) Winnipeg Police are seeking information about the identity of three suspects involved in assaults on a transit bus on Saturday. At approximately 11:20 p.m., a group boarded an eastbound bus at Ellice Avenue and Wall Street and proceeded to the rear of the bus where they demanded money from a number of passengers and assaulted two males, aged 16 and 38. The male bus driver then demanded the suspects stop, but was also assaulted before they fled the bus. The driver was treated in hospital for minor injuries while the two other victims did not require medical attention. The first suspect is described as a male in his 20s, 5-foot-9, aboriginal in appearance with a slim build, dark wavy hair and wearing a red bandana, a black parka and black pants. The second suspect is described as a male in his 20s, 5-6, aboriginal in appearance with a slim build, shaved head and was wearing a light brown parka while the third suspect is a female, also in her 20s, standing 5-2, aboriginal in appearance with a chubby build. Descriptions of a number of other suspects allegedly involved in the robberies are not available and the investigation is continuing. Anyone with information regarding the identity of the suspects or the incident is asked to contact investigators at 986-2839 or CrimeStoppers at 786-TIPS. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bre...rs_driver.html |
Winnipeg deserves its bad reputation of violence and crime? What do you mean deserves? Does Winnipeg deserve people to just bitch about its problems instead of working to solve them instead? Because that seems to be all you are capable of.
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Murder toll hits historic high
Homicides spike to 122 just one year after decline By Stephane Massinon, Calgary Herald January 9, Led by 67 deaths in Calgary and Edmonton, and another 53 in RCMP jurisdictions, the past year topped the provincial mark of 108 recorded in 2005, according to data compiled by the Herald. Those murders, and two in Lethbridge, add up to more killings in the province than there have ever been, according to Statistics Canada numbers dating back to 1961. While Edmonton and Calgary's numbers have remained stable over recent years, the spike across the province helped push the total to a dubious record. The most common reason cited for the increase is the increase in population. "Not to sound glib or trite about it, but there's obviously more people killing more people," said RCMP Cpl. Wayne Oakes. But explaining why the province recorded so many murders last year remains an inexact science, say experts. In districts policed by the Mounties--rural Alberta, but also the cities of Red Deer and Fort McMurray -- there was a large increase in homicides the year after a large decrease. Both are believed to be anomalies. Alberta's murder rate for 2008 stands at 3.7 per 100,000. That's well above the national average of 1.8 for 2007. In recent years, the highest Alberta rate was 3.5 in 2005. Oakes said explaining the number of murders last year is as difficult as explaining why there were so few in 2007. Alberta had only 23 killings in RCMP territory in 2007 and, according to Statistics Canada, a total of 88 in the province. As has been the trend in recent years, there were more killings in northern Alberta than in the southern part of the province. "It's hard to say why you're going to have homicides in one community but not in the next," said Oakes. "They are up," said Calgary-Hays MLA Art Johnston, a former police officer. "The gang activity is more prevalent than when I left policing six years." Johnston said there are a number of initiatives undertaken by the province to help address crime, such as his safer communities legislation. "I am concerned, like anyone else," he said. In Calgary, a quarter of the city's homicides were gang-related, but many homicide motives remain unknown and could push the two other leading causes--domestic/family killings and confrontations--to the forefront. In RCMP territory, 14 of 53 homicides were domestic or family killings, while seven were considered gang-related and five drug-related, Mount Royal College criminologist John Winterdyk said the domestic and family murders could be tied to the stress of difficult economic times. "It tends to create tensions in the household," he said. But for the overall numbers, he also pointed to the growing population in Alberta but added that the long-term trend over decades is a decreasing murder rate. "When you partial out the gang-related homicides, it brings the number more in line with the trend," said Winterdyk. "At the end of the day, it becomes a social, cultural, political, economic situation that is fairly complex to unravel. You almost have to go at a rural community, local regional, national level to help explain it." He said if there were an easy explanation to reduce the homicides, it would have been put in place. That said, he wouldn't be surprised to hear a call from police for more money. "When these things happen, it is a tool that the (justice) system can use to justify the call for more resources, whether it's financial, more manpower or otherwise." Not all killings occurred in 2008.RCMP say they've re-classified three cases-- one from 2007 and two from 2005--as homicides because of new information learned by investigators. Medicine Hat, Camrose and Taber police services reported no homicides last year. In RCMP territory, 77 per cent of the 2008 homicides were considered solved, but Oakes noted there could well be people out there with information related to unsolved murders. He urged them to contact police or Crime Stoppers. © Copyright (c) The Calgary Herald ------------------------------------------- Interesting that 67 of 122 homicides were in Calgary 7 Edmonton. That's roughly 55% of the total yet the 2 cities have about 2/3 of the population. No doubt some (or many) of the homicides from outside the 2 major cities were in communities or areas immediately outside Calgary & Edmonton (eg Chestermere, Strathcona County etc.) so you could almost count them as 'big city'. I wonder if that brings the numbers more in line with the polulation or if there is still a disproportionate number of murders in rural areas. |
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Give or take, Winnipeg makes up 60% of the provincial population, but only around 45% of the total murders. Therefore in Manitoba, there is certainly a disproportionate number of murders in the smaller communities. The homicide "rate" in 2007 for areas the province of Manitoba, not including Winnipeg was around 7/100,000. I don't know the stats for this year. |
NWO is at 1, could go up to 2, as far as I know. Thunder Bay at 0.
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Here is an interesting story - http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9010115.html
There was a drive-by shooting that has resulted in a fifteen year old boy being arrested for the attempted murder of a fourteen year old. Here's an interested part of the article: Quote:
There was a case a while back where a teenager (possibly in a stolen car, I don't remember) was joyriding and killed a woman. It turned out he had some ridiculous number of prior similar offenses that simply never resulted in him hitting somebody, so he got off basically without penalty. :koko: I can see letting first time offenders off with some kind of community service or whatever but repeat offenders need to rapidly see more and more jail time. On the one hand the courts shouldn't unnecessarily destroy the lives of young people who simply "screw up", but there are some serious criminals who are not going to change and need to be kept away from the public. |
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The hit-and-run you're talking about is the infamous McEnvoy one. The kid just got released from a court hearing on some sort of driving charge, he goes out and steals a car speeds around the west-end and collides with McEnvoy. To top it off he was also high at the time. He was released from Windsor charged with car theft and evading police despite the fact that there were 27 warrants for his arrest in Halifax at the time. The kid's name is Archie Billard and he was charged as an adult and is now serving 4 1/2 years at Waterville. |
Another gang hit in Calgary yesterday bringing our 2009 total to 5 (4 are gang related).
Time to start a new '2009' thread??? |
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