Canada's most dangerous places

[Bad Grizzly]

http://www.macleans.ca/canadas-most-dangerous-places/

[craneSpotter]

Woohoo, my city (within Greater Victoria) is ranked 191st out of 229!

[drew]

Originally Posted by craneSpotter

Woohoo, my city (within Greater Victoria) is ranked 191st out of 229!

Makes sense.

It is home of the "Nearly wed and nearly dead" after all...

[VANRIDERFAN]

Originally Posted by drew

Makes sense.

It is home of the "Nearly wed and nearly dead" after all...

Thats "Newly Wed"!

[Chinook Arch]

Originally Posted by craneSpotter

Woohoo, my city (within Greater Victoria) is ranked 191st out of 229!

But Victoria is ranked 30th out of 229. Make sure you don't leave Colville!

Calgary came out at #93 overall, #102 for violent crime. Okotoks meanwhile came out at #129 over all, and #164 for violent crime.....If only Okotoks was joined to Calgary we would have a bigger population....and much less crime overall!

[SignalHillHiker]

77. Worse than last time but still not bad.

[Marty_Mcfly]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

77. Worse than last time but still not bad.

Things that are surprising:

1.1 times the national average homicide rate
1.3 times the national average assault rate
1.2 times the national average sexual assault rate
2.6 times the national average firearms offense rate
1.5 times the national average robbery rate
1.4 times the national break & enter rate
2.0 times the national impaired driving rate

I'm usually one to laugh at the "this place ain't fit anymore" folks, but we low-key have begun going over the national average on a lot of violent crime measures for multiple years.

Maybe the first place to look: All other drug offense charges are way below the national average. However we know there's a drug problem. Police aren't doing near good enough job at taming the drug issues in the city.

[MolsonExport]

https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.19635...7i13312!8i6656

[Loco101]

Timmins is #56. The most dangerous city in Ontario!! (Okay Temiskaming Shores is more dangerous but it's not really a city)

I am not at all surprised about Timmins. We have a huge police presence with our city police and OPP and a high percentage of people here have criminal records.

[Oilers1799]

North Battleford, Sask is my vote. Gun shots ring out in the streets almost every night in a shit town of 13,000. RCMP can't keep track.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Oilers1799

North Battleford, Sask is my vote. Gun shots ring out in the streets almost every night in a shit town of 13,000. RCMP can't keep track.

I've only ever driven through N. Battleford on the 16 which sort of goes along the south edge of town. From the highway, it's a pretty-looking town set amidst some hills, with a standard-looking highway commercial strip. I had no idea it had such major problems... it's not obvious from driving through that there are such problems there as the ones profiled in the recent Maclean's story. I would not expect that of a quiet-looking town basically in the middle of farm country.

[Oilers1799]

Originally Posted by esquire

I've only ever driven through N. Battleford on the 16 which sort of goes along the south edge of town. From the highway, it's a pretty-looking town set amidst some hills, with a standard-looking highway commercial strip. I had no idea it had such major problems... it's not obvious from driving through that there are such problems there as the ones profiled in the recent Maclean's story. I would not expect that of a quiet-looking town basically in the middle of farm country.

With 13 reservations surrounding the town, the aboriginal crime rate has gotten out of control. People here refer to it as Little Detroit.

[Echoes]

SK with the Gold and Bronze!

[TownGuy]

Why does western Canada always dominate these lists?

[Architype]

Originally Posted by TownGuy

Why does western Canada always dominate these lists?

Probably because they vote Conservative? Any other reason would not be PC.

[Blitz]

Of the 20 safest municipalities in Canada, 5 of them are in the Windsor metro area. Yet the 'most dangerous' place in the U.S. is just across the river. Hard to figure all of this out.

[craneSpotter]

Originally Posted by Blitz

Of the 20 safest municipalities in Canada, 5 of them are in the Windsor metro area. Yet the 'most dangerous' place in the U.S. is just across the river. Hard to figure all of this out.

Windsor / Detroit - kinda like El Paso / Ciudad Juarez....?

Here are the CMA numbers with all the municipalities (within each CMA) averaged in:

[jonny24]

Originally Posted by craneSpotter

Windsor / Detroit - kinda like El Paso / Ciudad Juarez....?

Here are the CMA numbers with all the municipalities (within each CMA) averaged in:

Huh. Turns out the jokes I make to my Brantford co-workers are accurate

Lot of smaller towns high up in the list- is there an established reason? Smaller police forces? Fewer eyes just generally around to deter crime? Worse off economically?

[lio45]

Originally Posted by craneSpotter

Windsor / Detroit - kinda like El Paso / Ciudad Juarez....?

Here are the CMA numbers with all the municipalities (within each CMA) averaged in:

I'm amused that someone thought it required to add those little superscript ⁴ and ⁵ to make sure the reader knows what the writer could possibly have meant by "Gatineau" and "Ottawa".

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by craneSpotter

Windsor / Detroit - kinda like El Paso / Ciudad Juarez....?

Here are the CMA numbers with all the municipalities (within each CMA) averaged in:

I don't understand why, year after year, Gatineau is always slightly higher than Ottawa on the crime severity index.

I mean, this year has been average for both cities during the past decade or so, and Ottawa has had 15 murders or more and we've had one. Ottawa has shootings every couple of days, and our total shootings for the year you could probably count on one hand.

Yes, we are one quarter to to one third of the size of Ottawa but our crime numbers if we were in the same range as them should be of that ratio, not less than one tenth in most cases.

I guess there is something I don't understand about the crime severity index.