Quote:
Originally Posted by Only The Lonely..
The keyword here is C-A-N-A-D-A'S murder capital.
This is a country where in lieu of a gun political dissenters will toss banana cream pie at their political masters.
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Only The Lonely..
Winnipeg, Edmonton and Regina have crime rates that would probably be the envy of just about anywhere else in the U.S.
|
We must always strive to improve our city, and my unit of comparative analysis is limited to Canada.
I think that Winnipeg is more dangerous, per capita, than most places in the US. But, ya gotta remember... the US is a big place, full of 20,000-40,000 pop. cities. We're probably more dangerous than the white picket fences "Anytown USA;" but certainly not as dangerous as places like East St. Louis, Detroit, parts of DC, parts of LA, etc.
This is probably a bad example, but I felt way safer in areas of NYC considered dangerous, than I do in Winnipeg. Okay, it is a bad example, half of the people on the streets were undercover Homeland Security. Maybe that's what Winnipeg needs - as a short-term fix - not just officers walking the beat, but undercover cops walking around too. Our criminals can spot a police uniform from blocks away, even though many are too drunk to see that far.... come to think of it, that is something for "Ripley's Believe It Or Not."
When the 2009 data is all out (in 2011, no doubt), I get the impression that Vancouver is going to, by far, take the lead in homicide. I'm watching it closely, cause I worry that Vancouver is going to make Canada an international embarrassment if those gangs are still shooting people so often - in broad daylight - during the Olympics.