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Originally Posted by Gresto
^The media likes to exaggerate the prevalence of crime, and the public laps it up. "If it bleeds, it leads" still holds true, decades after having been coined.
It's a fluke. On average, we have between 60 and 80 murders annually.
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Well, certainly there's some randomness in any given year as to what dates murders happen on..........and therefore projected rates.
However, if you look at the 5-year trendline right off the Toronto Police Data Portal, Homicides were at a 5-year low last year.
Shootings were also at a 5-year low last year.
Much was made of the rise is 'Major Crimes' which were up in absolute numbers, however, when you compare them to the pre-covid numbers and adjust for population growth, even that rate is in decline.
That's not to suggest Toronto is crime-free, it most certainly is not, and some publicity existed in the latter 1/2 of 2022 on a rise in incidents on the TTC (supported by the data).
That said, I would suggest the overall trend on homicides and murders is down, and *knock wood* we might be hopeful of it declining further in 2023.