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Originally Posted by Tosin007
But if nobody died then it doesn't matter as much.
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To the media, perhaps. But violent crime still has a ripple effect through the community. It still has a perpetrator and victim, it still has relatives of those individuals who will be affected by the crime, and it still has an impact on how people feel about safety in their city.
In 2014, Thunder Bay had 11 homicides. In 2015 we had 3, and in 2016 we're also up to just three. Violent crime rates have gone up slightly since 2014, but would you argue the the city is, overall, safer now, simply because less assaults resulted in a death? People still got assaulted. They're more likely to be assaulted now than in 2014 when the homicide rate was nearly 4 times higher. The violent crime rate in Thunder Bay was higher still in 2008 when we didn't have a single homicide during the calendar year.