TOareaFan
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Even some of the large U.S. cities have nearly as many murders per 100,000 inhabitants as Toronto has in total. Detroit, Baltimore and St. Louis all have around 40 murders per 100,000 people. To put that into perspective, Toronto would have to have over 1000 murders a year to match that rate. This is why I hate it when the Sun runs headlines like "Summer of the Gun". They have no idea what constant, unrelenting violence is.
And hopefully we never find out!! I think our media does a good job of reporting violent crimes and a sign that we are still doing "ok" as a city/region (IMO) is that each murder and most violent crimes do get media attention........the fact that we report/react (you might say over report/react) this way keeps the issue in the public eye and I, for one, would rather we felt bad about the situation rather than taking a "well we are still ok cause we don't murder each other at the same rate they do in Detroit" sorta 'tude.
Just another way to look at the same situation.