starduk
11-21-2004, 12:15 PM
Just for fun: (From Correctional Service Canada)
Despite having incarceration rates that are 5 to 6 times higher, American cities are much more dangerous than comparable Canadian cities. Seven U.S. and Canadian cities were selected to compare homicide and violent crime rates. Cities were matched for general similarity in size and/or geographical location.
In all cases, the homicide rates of the American cities are all higher than their Canadian neighbors, and this would generally be true for any sample of larger American versus Canadian cities.
Between the matched pairs in the study, the difference in homicide rates is usually quite large (e.g., between Chicago – 22.9 per 100,000 – and Toronto – 1.6 per 100,000).
Homicide Rates (per 100,000), 2001
City Population Rate
Vancouver 2,078,824 2.1
Seattle 572,345 4.4
Calgary 971,532 1.5
Denver 569,653 7.9
Winnipeg 684,778 2.8
Minneapolis 386,726 11.1
Toronto 4,881,392 1.6
Chicago 2,910,709 22.9
Ottawa-Carleton 844,969 0.4
Washington DC 571,822 40.6
Montreal 3,511,845 2.2
Philadelphia 1,518,302 20.4
Halifax 359,186 0.8
Norfolk 238,020 13.0
Canada 31,081,887 1.8
United States 284,796,887 5.6
Source: Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada. Uniform Crime Reports, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Note: Crime data are based on reports for municipal police forces, not the wider Census Metropolitan Area populations.
***CRAZY how low our population is compared to the US on top of being larger geographically!!!***
Despite having incarceration rates that are 5 to 6 times higher, American cities are much more dangerous than comparable Canadian cities. Seven U.S. and Canadian cities were selected to compare homicide and violent crime rates. Cities were matched for general similarity in size and/or geographical location.
In all cases, the homicide rates of the American cities are all higher than their Canadian neighbors, and this would generally be true for any sample of larger American versus Canadian cities.
Between the matched pairs in the study, the difference in homicide rates is usually quite large (e.g., between Chicago – 22.9 per 100,000 – and Toronto – 1.6 per 100,000).
Homicide Rates (per 100,000), 2001
City Population Rate
Vancouver 2,078,824 2.1
Seattle 572,345 4.4
Calgary 971,532 1.5
Denver 569,653 7.9
Winnipeg 684,778 2.8
Minneapolis 386,726 11.1
Toronto 4,881,392 1.6
Chicago 2,910,709 22.9
Ottawa-Carleton 844,969 0.4
Washington DC 571,822 40.6
Montreal 3,511,845 2.2
Philadelphia 1,518,302 20.4
Halifax 359,186 0.8
Norfolk 238,020 13.0
Canada 31,081,887 1.8
United States 284,796,887 5.6
Source: Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada. Uniform Crime Reports, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Note: Crime data are based on reports for municipal police forces, not the wider Census Metropolitan Area populations.
***CRAZY how low our population is compared to the US on top of being larger geographically!!!***