On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 09:47 -0500, Walter Banks wrote:
> To put violent crime in perspective in Toronto. The metropolitan area has
> about 3.5M people. There has for the last few years averaged about
> one murder a week. The major news story earlier in the year was
> more people had been killed on the streets jay walking.
> 
> I live outside of Toronto crime of any sort is low.

Violent crime is something that Toronto really shines at, there just
isn't much here. Sure, there are murders, but considering how many
people are here the rate is VERY low.

I moved north of the city almost 5 years ago, in my region (containing a
population of more then 500k people) there hasn't been a single murder
in all that time. Quite remarkable IMHO.

That's not to say there is no crime, sure there is, but Toronto mostly
certainly feels much "safer" to most people then other big cities.

TTYL

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