Yes, that's the solution. Because if we all do the exact same thing at the exact same time, the streets will be safer.
I don't know how things are in Canadian cities (compared to Minneapolis, a wannabe Canadian city) but the news media chooses to sensationalize violent crimes in poor/innercity/minority/immigrant areas, while ignoring any violence in better off areas. I live on the edge of what is considered one of the "good" sections of town, and if it weren't for friends who live nearby telling me, I wouldn't've known that there's been a rash of muggings. They didn't know about the murder two doors over. And the local attempted kidnappings never make the news. The media is so f*ed up bere. Personally, I feel safer in most of the "bad" neighborhoods than in my own, because there're more people out at all times of day and night; here I can walk for an hour middday and pass only one person.
Oy! Sorry to go on about it! I've just been feeling frustrated by how being female, small, approachable, in a low density city, without a car, in America, traps me sometimes. Or at least makes me weirdly worried.
Also (so that this grows ever longer) the study seems to be people who report being victims of a violent crime. Maybe people in Halifax are just more willing to admit to that, or are more aware of the kind of domestic assault that counts as violent crime? Maybe people who have been victims of violent crimes move immediately to Halifax? Or maybe the increase in drug use means that people think that they have been victims of violent crimes when they haven't?
Minneapolis offers Halifax its condolences. Minneapolis was "Murderapolis" in 1996 (or 92, can't recall), topping per capita murders in the entire violent U.S.
there seems to be two separate stats there: the study where they asked 1000 people (which doesn't really properly represent a city with 365,000 people in it!) and the actual statistic from stats canada, which takes into account all the reported crimes, which is the scarier of the two.
halifax has been plagued with "swarmings" since the spring, and while they were making the news at first, media coverage stopped because it was just giving street credit to all those kids. most people think they've stopped, but in fact they haven't - they've only been getting worse, and i personally know 2 people who have been victim to them. this is the scariest thing for me, because there's nothing you can do when 20+ kids and adults start beating you, and if you try to fight back, they pull a gun on you. it's crazy. then, of course, are all those shootings we had in the spring. but those weren't random - they were targeting specific people/places.
i just hope we can clean up our act sometime soon. i mean, this is atlantic canada, known to most as the friendliest place in canada. so why are we acting out so much?
I don't know how things are in Canadian cities (compared to Minneapolis, a wannabe Canadian city) but the news media chooses to sensationalize violent crimes in poor/innercity/minority/immigrant areas, while ignoring any violence in better off areas. I live on the edge of what is considered one of the "good" sections of town, and if it weren't for friends who live nearby telling me, I wouldn't've known that there's been a rash of muggings. They didn't know about the murder two doors over. And the local attempted kidnappings never make the news. The media is so f*ed up bere. Personally, I feel safer in most of the "bad" neighborhoods than in my own, because there're more people out at all times of day and night; here I can walk for an hour middday and pass only one person.
Oy! Sorry to go on about it! I've just been feeling frustrated by how being female, small, approachable, in a low density city, without a car, in America, traps me sometimes. Or at least makes me weirdly worried.
Also (so that this grows ever longer) the study seems to be people who report being victims of a violent crime. Maybe people in Halifax are just more willing to admit to that, or are more aware of the kind of domestic assault that counts as violent crime? Maybe people who have been victims of violent crimes move immediately to Halifax? Or maybe the increase in drug use means that people think that they have been victims of violent crimes when they haven't?
Minneapolis offers Halifax its condolences. Minneapolis was "Murderapolis" in 1996 (or 92, can't recall), topping per capita murders in the entire violent U.S.
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halifax has been plagued with "swarmings" since the spring, and while they were making the news at first, media coverage stopped because it was just giving street credit to all those kids. most people think they've stopped, but in fact they haven't - they've only been getting worse, and i personally know 2 people who have been victim to them. this is the scariest thing for me, because there's nothing you can do when 20+ kids and adults start beating you, and if you try to fight back, they pull a gun on you. it's crazy. then, of course, are all those shootings we had in the spring. but those weren't random - they were targeting specific people/places.
i just hope we can clean up our act sometime soon. i mean, this is atlantic canada, known to most as the friendliest place in canada. so why are we acting out so much?
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