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Old 03-10-2016, 08:44 AM
 
Location: Maine
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Stabbings are surging in NY. There were 381 stabbings/slashings in the first 33 days of the year and a lot of the victims are innocent people being robbed. I always knew the city had a knife problem but I never knew it was that bad. 381 people in 33 days puts it on pace for over 4,200 this year.

Three more slashings in NYC as disturbing incidents climb | New York Post

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Old 03-10-2016, 08:34 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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I think most places have very safe suburban areas.

I know Chicago is an example of this. Take away Chicago and you have 138 murders for 6,700,000 suburban people, or a rate of around 2.0/100,000. It's even more extreme than that if you think that around 75% of the city's murders happen in areas with 25% of the population.

Then it would be:

Suburbs+Stable Chicago: 245 murders for 8,735,000 or 2.8/100,000
West+South Chicago: 323 murders for 676,000 or 47.8/100,000

It's like a perfectly safe Toronto metro area, and then smack the city of Detroit onto the side of it.
I feel like this could describe just about every American city; some areas with very high crime while other areas where most the population live experience very few issues. Not many places just have a consistent high or low rate everywhere in a metro.
 
Old 03-11-2016, 12:28 AM
 
Location: Katy,Texas
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Metro-wise Houston's murder count is concentrated in the city but all 8 nautical directions have at least one murder free and one murder crazy neighborhood, no zoning does that to you.
 
Old 03-11-2016, 07:04 AM
 
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Montreal got very few very cold days this winter compared to previous years, so your theory doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Weather alone doesn't explain why there have been no murders at all in Montreal (and only 2 in the province of Quebec) since the year started.

And although there are indeed more people outside during summer, the cold doesn't scare people up here, we still go out. A few examples: Igloofest, Montréal en lumières, Carnaval de Québec, Nuits blanches à Montréal, Cabane Panache et bois rond.
It got very cold, it just came late, keep in mind it was -22C just last week. I know for a fact since I am in Montreal (not for long since I am planing to move to some warmer place south)... There have been some attempted murders in Rosemont, some random attack as well.. Anyway, Montreal since like 2010 is averaging like 30 murders per year
 
Old 03-11-2016, 07:08 AM
 
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Although if you added all the smaller municipalities "close in" to Boston I am not sure the murder total would skyrocket that much... would it?
Well, appart from Quincy and sometimes Brockton, adding all the municipalities around Boston will in fact reduce the crime rate. We are talking about cities like Cambridge, Brookline, Hingham etc...
 
Old 03-11-2016, 07:12 AM
 
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I feel like this could describe just about every American city; some areas with very high crime while other areas where most the population live experience very few issues. Not many places just have a consistent high or low rate everywhere in a metro.
Well, even for L.A county, remove LA from its county and you have an area of like 5 millions peoples for like 359 homicides... Not NYC level and apparently not Chicago suburb level but still quite low
 
Old 03-11-2016, 07:23 AM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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It got very cold, it just came late, keep in mind it was -22C just last week. I know for a fact since I am in Montreal

Where do you think begratto is?


And I am 2 hours west of Montreal so same weather.




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(not for long since I am planing to move to some warmer place south)... There have been some attempted murders in Rosemont, some random attack as well.. Anyway, Montreal since like 2010 is averaging like 30 murders per year
Which is still very low for a city of 2 million people (the area patrolled by SPVM).

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Old 03-11-2016, 08:06 AM
 
Location: Montreal > Quebec > Canada
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It got very cold, it just came late, keep in mind it was -22C just last week. I know for a fact since I am in Montreal (not for long since I am planing to move to some warmer place south)...
Nunavut and North West territories have way, way more murders per capita than Quebec, and they are much, much colder places. How does that fit with you "there are no murders because it's a cold place" theory?

And as Acajack mentioned, I live in Montreal and can tell you that this winter has been exceptionnally warm. my heating bill is about 25% lower than previous years. So the cold does certainly not explain why there have been fewer murders this year.

And for anyone interested in up-to-date stats: Montreal (2M people) is still at 0 murders YTD. The province of Quebec (8.2M people) is at 2 since january 1st.
 
Old 03-11-2016, 09:00 AM
 
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I feel like this could describe just about every American city; some areas with very high crime while other areas where most the population live experience very few issues. Not many places just have a consistent high or low rate everywhere in a metro.
Right, that was my point. I can't really think of many overall dangerous metro areas. New Orleans?
 
Old 03-11-2016, 09:45 AM
 
Location: Oak Park, IL
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Well, appart from Quincy and sometimes Brockton, adding all the municipalities around Boston will in fact reduce the crime rate. We are talking about cities like Cambridge, Brookline, Hingham etc...
Chelsea?
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