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There is a reason why in EVERY SINGLE CITY in north america, homicides spike come spring... in 2013, NYC had many days without a single murder due to the cold... So you are the silly one... People do not have the will to stay outside when it is like -20 + windchill thus feeling like -40 with icy side walk, freezing noses and stuff... but I can care less about what you think
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.
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.
Yeah, the total number of murders in the city proper is comparable: generally in the 40s for Boston and the 50s for Toronto in recent years.
But the city proper population is very different: 655,000 for Boston and 2.6 million for Toronto.
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?
Things can change of course during the year but at the current pace the media in Toronto are saying the city is on track for around 100 murders in 2016.
Yeah, the total number of murders in the city proper is comparable: generally in the 40s for Boston and the 50s for Toronto in recent years.
But the city proper population is very different: 655,000 for Boston and 2.6 million for Toronto.
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?
Things can change of course during the year but at the current pace the media in Toronto are saying the city is on track for around 100 murders in 2016.
If you added those municipalities near to Boston it would not add many murders to the total, as my list demonstrated earlier. It is very difficult to compare Boston to a city like Toronto because they are laid out completely differently. If Boston went through an amalgamation similar to Toronto it would add many urban cities with low or non existent murder rates and seamlessly blend into the core city as they do already.
If you added those municipalities near to Boston it would not add many murders to the total, as my list demonstrated earlier. It is very difficult to compare Boston to a city like Toronto because they are laid out completely differently. If Boston went through an amalgamation similar to Toronto it would add many urban cities with low or non existent murder rates and seamlessly blend into the core city as they do already.
If you added those municipalities near to Boston it would not add many murders to the total, as my list demonstrated earlier. It is very difficult to compare Boston to a city like Toronto because they are laid out completely differently. If Boston went through an amalgamation similar to Toronto it would add many urban cities with low or non existent murder rates and seamlessly blend into the core city as they do already.
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.
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