tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12218227.post116326554389288909..comments2024-02-12T05:46:36.595-05:00Comments on talk talk talk: Mayoralty Candidates on Crimetalk talk talk / Shireenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10453931641034885060noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12218227.post-1163475051809937182006-11-13T22:30:00.000-05:002006-11-13T22:30:00.000-05:00"(which is really interesting, given that we're al..."(which is really interesting, given that we're also the biggest, and one would think the bigger the city, the greater the per capita crime rate and the greater the violence)."<BR/><BR/>Why would one think that? It DOES follow that, the bigger the city, the greater the number of crimes, but the interesting fact is that there is no correlation between population size and per-capita crime rates. New York used to have a problem with crime, but since the early 1990s, its murder rate and violent crime rates have slid, to a level comparable to Boise, Idaho.<BR/><BR/>And New York's per capita crime rate is still higher than that of Toronto. Toronto's rate is quite low -- lower than Calgary and Edmonton. The correlation just isn't there; though frustratingly too many people make this mistake, which makes them vulnerable to politicians that try to scare their votes out of them, with "law and order" strategies.<BR/><BR/>I myself have never felt unsafe on the streets of Toronto, even in this day and age. It does help that I'm a six foot tall male weighing 240 pounds, but I think there's something about the design of Toronto -- either choices it made in the sixties and the seventies or a happy accident, that allowed it to avoid the mass degredation that afflicted numerous American cities during the period.James Bowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11888307747088266395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12218227.post-1163280444401243502006-11-11T16:27:00.000-05:002006-11-11T16:27:00.000-05:00Great piece, ParioGreat piece, ParioTor Polihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537394291852649158noreply@blogger.com