http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/10/14/national-crime-rankings-2010/

WORST CITIES PERCENTAGE ABOVE THE NATIONAL CRIME SCORE
Prince George, B.C. +90%
Victoria, B.C. 81
Regina, Sask. 73
Saskatoon, Sask. 69
Fort McMurray, Alta. 68
Kelowna, B.C. 65
Grande Prairie, Alta. 64
Surrey, B.C. 60
Chilliwack, B.C. 58
Winnipeg, Man. 57

Well, there goes my planned winter vacation trip to Prince George.

Me too. Cancelled my flight. :cry:

Bummer. Victoria's like my favorite town. :(

I doubt any of them compare with Detroit or New Orleans though.

B.C. and saskatchewan representin'

all drug towns well i don't know about victoria whats up with that

all drug towns well i don't know about victoria whats up with that

The raw sewage they dump in the ocean has gotten to their heads. :nuts:

Thunder Bay isn't on the list? But we're worse than Kingston, Jamaica!

Thunder Bay isn't on the list? But we're worse than Kingston, Jamaica!

Lawl.... bagging on your own city and exaggerating about how bad at it makes me wanna piss the pot clean.

all drug towns well i don't know about victoria whats up with that

Victoria is notorious. You think you are helping an old white haired granny across the street, when she lifts up her able walker and crashes it over your head! Then she grabs your wallet and dashes.
Be warned, people. :(

And here I thought it was all those young hooodlums fresh off the ferry from Port Angeles...

They don't stand a chance with the massively entrenched Senior Citizen Mafia. They all meet up at the bingo hall and divvy up the loot.

Lawl.... bagging on your own city and exaggerating about how bad at it makes me wanna piss the pot clean.

I was being sarcastic.

I'm just relieved (although not terribly surprised) that Hfx is not on the list. Although I am a bit surprised about Victoria.

They don't stand a chance with the massively entrenched Senior Citizen Mafia. They all meet up at the bingo hall and divvy up the loot.

And they're junkies too. Ever notice all the spent tubes of Sea Bond dental adhesive behind the bingo hall?

Victoria's stats always look bad when the criminal activity in the city core is compared against the population of the city core only. It's been a recurring news item for 30 years despite the fact that it's so easy to explain (basic formula: take any decently large city, turn its downtown core and some adjacent neighbourhoods into a separate municipality, and then compare the criminal activity of the downtown core against the population of the downtown and the adjacent neighbourhoods only... In other words, the hundreds of thousands of people who regularly patronize the downtown core but don't live inside the downtown core are considered not to exist when the Vic PD's crime reports are analyzed.)

As I like to say, if they really want to make things look bad (and thereby increase the Vic PD's budget) they should exaggerate the stats even more by making the commercial-only areas of downtown into a separate city. Call it Victoria, so then they'd be able to say Victoria is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. It would have all of the crime that you'd expect to find in the core of a city of 360,000 (because of all the bars, nightclubs, social services, street people, drug addicts, unaware tourists, etc.) but a tiny population. Example: you'd have 1500 assaults per year but nowhere near that many full-time residents.

Not too long ago the Vic PD was complaining to the media about how Victoria has umpteen times the number of liquor licenses of any other city in Canada of Victoria's size (population 80,000). How on earth did this happen? No more new liquor licenses! Etc.

I was being sarcastic.

UH... DUH! Pretty sure I got that part.

Prince George has really lost a lot of Jobs since the fisheries closed. Ain't nothin left to do there but turn tricks and 'nickle n dime' it i suppose.

Thunder Bay isn't on the list? But we're worse than Kingston, Jamaica!

here you go:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/10/14/homicide/
:)

Prince George has really lost a lot of Jobs since the fisheries closed. Ain't nothin left to do there but turn tricks and 'nickle n dime' it i suppose.

My bags are packed! :naughty:

I was planning a trip through BC this December. Looks like I'll have to bring along my bullet proof vest.

here you go:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/10/14/homicide/
:)

I'm guessing it's a perfect time for the commentators to scapegoat the long-form gun registry, huh.

The West has always had a greater crime rate than Ont/Que/Atl.
I've been here for20 years from safe London Ontario and I will never get use to how bad the crime rate is. People in BC don't seem to realize {or won't admit} that they are in a very high crime rate section of the country.

the long-form gun registry, huh.

Long form census.

Gun registry.

Two different things.

Every homicide in my city, with few exceptions, has been with a knife or hands. The gun registry doesn't do shit to prevent crime. Well funded and organized social programmes designed to help people end addictions and find work will, but those don't win votes.

Long form census.

Gun registry.

Two different things.

Every homicide in my city, with few exceptions, has been with a knife or hands. The gun registry doesn't do shit to prevent crime. Well funded and organized social programmes designed to help people end addictions and find work will, but those don't win votes.

I blame the lost seat on the Security Council for this. Or, I suppose Michael Ignatieff, whose fault that all was..... according to Steve! :lol:

It's ironic how conservatives always go on and on about people needing to accept responsibility for things but they never seem able to themselves. And then when someone they don't like accepts responsibility for their mistakes, they ridicule them for making the mistake and then being too weak to not apologize.

This behaviour is very distressing when it is practised by a government.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/10/14/national-crime-rankings-2010/

They don't mess around in these cities. People be gettin' killed by driveby harpoonings.

^^ I know! One "hefty" candidate here for mayor of Toronto wouldn't DARE sit on a beach anywhere, in case he got accidentally harpooned.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/10/14/national-crime-rankings-2010/
WORST CITIES PERCENTAGE ABOVE THE NATIONAL CRIME SCORE
Prince George, B.C. +90%
Victoria, B.C. 81
Regina, Sask. 73
Saskatoon, Sask. 69
Fort McMurray, Alta. 68
Kelowna, B.C. 65
Grande Prairie, Alta. 64
Surrey, B.C. 60
Chilliwack, B.C. 58
Winnipeg, Man. 57



These places are all either socially-dysfunctional resource boom towns, or have high native populatios, or are within commuting distance of Canada's drug port.

I often wonder if this poor women is still alive, this has to be the worst street in Canada. :ohno: tecMYJSTbZM

Windsor is 35 th. I would have guessed higher.

^^ I was surprised too. I guess that the scum from the other side of the Detroit river tend to stay in their own dysfunctional ciy?

I don't think gangs have Nexus passes.

Prince George has really lost a lot of Jobs since the fisheries closed. Ain't nothin left to do there but turn tricks and 'nickle n dime' it i suppose.

Uhh... wrong Prince... Prince George is about 700 kms away from the ocean... You're thinking Prince Rupert.

Uhh... wrong Prince... Prince George is about 700 kms away from the ocean... You're thinking Prince Rupert.

You're right. Too much royalty in BC. I can rarely get my head around it >_<

You're right. Too much royalty in BC. I can rarely get my head around it >_<

Lots of queens, too! :yes: