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Why is there so many shootings in Toronto? (pg. 2)
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| Skipper |
^^ You're kidding, right?
Potholes deserve more attention that violent crime?
Yes, Toronto is one of the safer cities in the world, but that's a relative measurement...if every other city is getting progressively (hah, I said progressive :p ) more violent, that doesn't say squat about how safe our streets are.
I agree, sometimes these things consume the media for days. But I don't see how that's such a horrible thing. Think of all the other crap news they cover....what good is going to come of covering that news instead of violent crime? |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
^^ You're kidding, right?
Potholes deserve more attention that violent crime? |
I think you're taking that way out of context. I'm not saying that a ruined car because of a pothole is more tragic than another dead body, but why should we continue complaining about the crime rate if it's already going down? If anything, focus more on the unsolved crimes.
Potholes were just an example :p |
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| TheNeonAlien |
| scarborough = Canada's Harlem |
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| j_spot |
| you may say its not bad, but when you cant open a daily without somebody being murdered overnight, then something is wrong. |
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| Vivid Boy |
| please theres nothing wrong...and crimes are not on the rise..maybe tto you ppl cause u have been sheltered from them but when i was a kid ill tell u i saw alot more ed up things then i do now... infinity is right...the media is just focusing on it...go to the states..thats in ghetto.. |
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| Cyrus King |
im with skipper on this one.
By comparing our city to the world isnt going to help improve the local problem at hand.
Although crime is declining... GUN VIOLENCE has increased..and that worries me.
I think that bringing more attention about this issue will highlight the need for stricter gun laws.
Media hype is sometimes beneficial! |
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| d!abolic |
| Let the animals wipe eachother out |
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| INFERNO2K |
| quote: | Originally posted by d!abolic
Let the animals wipe eachother out |
Darwin :p |
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| tha_broad |
| quote: | Originally posted by j_spot
you may say its not bad, but when you cant open a daily without somebody being murdered overnight, then something is wrong. |
I completely agree with you on this....why do you think theres so much news about it?? because it's happening so much more now....before, it wasnt happening so often, so when it did, there wasnt that much of a fuss over it BECAUSE it wasnt that often. Now, its just getting out of hand...apparently at Malvern, 4 students have died last semester alone from violent crime...if thats "NOT BAD" then theres something wrong with you |
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| Slag |
| quote: | Originally posted by tha_broad
I completely agree with you on this....why do you think theres so much news about it?? because it's happening so much more now....before, it wasnt happening so often, so when it did, there wasnt that much of a fuss over it BECAUSE it wasnt that often. Now, its just getting out of hand...apparently at Malvern, 4 students have died last semester alone from violent crime...if thats "NOT BAD" then theres something wrong with you |
Well, it's not that it is actually happening so much more now, but rather, it's the media awareness of these incidents is skyrocketing. It's even worse in the US. If you watch the style of a local New York station, compared with CityTV, you'll notice that there's always violent crime occuring. That is what they focus on. There is always crime occuring. How it's being filtered is changing. |
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| avikonen |
| for murder. Just for perspective, TO's crime statistics would be the envy of any major american city. |
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| dallasstar |
there aren't as many shootings here as there is in DC///
Dallas |
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