Toronto ranked "2nd safest city in the world" in study
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YYZ has good and not so good hoods. Also safety is relative, I don't expect my 93 year old aunt to be hanging out at Jane and Woolner at 3am on a Saturday night.
Toronto is not a shit storm. Ever been to Detroit?
fwiw Montreal is not a shit storm either.
This isn't the early 90's anymore, Toronto is super safe now. We have a 24 hour news cycle and social media that hypes up every issue.
In terms of crime rate and homicide rate as of 2020, Toronto is not even top 10 in terms of Canadian cities. I've posted this info so many times on thus board.
In terms of crime rate and homicide rate as of 2020, Toronto is not even top 10 in terms of Canadian cities. I've posted this info so many times on thus board.
Toronto is full of drugged out folks roaming the streets, and not only at nighttime, though they're more evident then when the regular masses have called it quits. I had a guy tail me downtown for about 15 minutes, shouting incoherent curses. Didn't scare me, as he was so fucked up he could barely walk, but made me think if I were a woman or a child, how scared shitless I would be. A week later, I saw a guy steal a backpack from a young woman (student?) and take off running while she shouted at him. And there are several streets I've walked down late at night that made even me uncomfortable.
To a certain extent, urban areas are less safe in general, so it's relative, but I have a hard time believing Toronto is even top 10 in the world, unless we're really dialing up the population criteria for assessment.
To a certain extent, urban areas are less safe in general, so it's relative, but I have a hard time believing Toronto is even top 10 in the world, unless we're really dialing up the population criteria for assessment.
None of those cases would be reported to the police like in the past so statistics aren’t fully accurate.
The feeling of being unsafe has little if any relationship to actually being unsafe.
While women feel unsafe, men feel very safe. The data around safety is the exact opposite. Women are the most protected and safest in terms of all crime with the exception of sexual assault, where women are 2 times as likely to be sexually assaulted as men. However, men are 3 times more likely to be murdered, assaulted, or robbed.( sexual assault data does not include incidents in jails whee the incidents are far higher for boys and men).
We can thank the media for a very misleading portrayal of who is most at risk of victimization.
Meh - Your opinion.
Having had a break and enter in my home, having been raped, robbed etc. I will stick with my own thoughts and feelings on this topic, thanks.
Drug and alcohol abuse has gone down. Things have improved quite a bit in terms of crime.
What are you basing that on?
Everything I can find shows increasing deaths due to substance abuse, be it Toronto, Ontario or Canada-wide.
That just means we have stronger drugs now. We're in an anomaly stage now due to the pandemic.
Covid-19 has caused usage rates to spike, which I predict will be temporary, but alcohol usage rates have dropped in Canada, UK, and Australia. Global rates are a different story.
Harmful alcohol use is on the rise — and experts warn it’s not slowing down - National | Globalnews.ca
The economic cost of alcohol-related harm across Canada is $14.6 billion per year.
globalnews.ca
Opioid deaths started falling in Canada, until the pandemic came.
Opioid Deaths in Canada Were Falling, Then Came Coronavirus
As cities across Canada locked down, the number of overdose deaths surged, putting the country on track to lose the gains it made last year.
www.wsj.com
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If this study were 5+ years ago I'd agree with it. But Toronto has become much less safe since Tory took office in 2015. Violent crimes are up. There are more drug addicts and transients roaming the streets. The infrastructure is poorer, despite huge amounts of money being invested in roads, sidewalks, bridges, public transit etc.
But I would say overall compared to its peers in North America Toronto is still relatively safe.
But I would say overall compared to its peers in North America Toronto is still relatively safe.
