Crime Down-StatsCan, 73% Disagree
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Do you walk around at night in your neighbourhood and feel safe? I feel pretty safe in mine and I do it once in a while.
I do it everyday and I walk at night too. What is to be afraid of? Some malnutritioned, FAS, stoner? A sneeze will knock them down.
I would guess you are a man. I don't hear this from women that it is safe to walk Canada's streets at night. I like to hear from the other half of the population on CBC, CTV, Global etc.
I walk all around downtown Toronto at night without problem. Generally speaking, if you're not looking for trouble, trouble won't find you. Obviously there are random incidents but that happens everywhere.
I see women walking around every night without incidents, Canada is not South Africa or Brazil where you need armed escorts.
One crime stat that is definitely not going down is the amount of money all levels of government are stealing out of our paycheques.
Do you know what is even tougher to deal with? Old Age Insecurity. Being afraid of the TV News boogieman, thinking your Depends are leaking in the ass and you can't see it, worrying if your blue shoes goes with your blue hair, is that a person in the crosswalk or is it my cataracts and so forth.
I'd believe crime is down. I'd also believe news coverage of crime has risen dramatically both in how many times a story airs a day, and in the 'catchment zones' if you will, for coverage having grown to any global story, rather than local ones.
Playdates. Parents believe crime is up because kids can no longer walk around in their neighbourhoods to another house. Parents have to arrange and personally bring their kids to the playdate. I could walk anywhere when I was younger four decades ago, not now though. And parents pick up and drop off their kids to school.
That's why people believe crime is on the rise.
Any time some nut in lower rat's ass tennessee decides to kill 4 people, it's beamed live around the world on 37 different networks, and we all obsess about it.
There's something to be said for the newspaper cycle, where the hysteria has a chance to die down before everyone rants.
Look at the Casey Anthony (or whatever her name is) thing; there have been women killing their kids for centuries, but this one became a world wide celebrity due to the need for something to feed tv coverage.
Yep, the media definitely has a lot to do with it. For instance, if a person is even acting suspiciously around a child, the whole community is immediately aware of it and we get alerts from the schools. That is probably good, but it also tends to make parents paranoid and even a week after the alleged incident is brought to our attention I'm still leery about my granddaughters walking alone in broad daylight in the neighbourhood.