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Toronto’s homicide rate is now higher than New York’s
By Lauren O’Neil
Posted in June, 2018
With just days to go before the halfway point of 2018, Toronto Police have confirmed at least 48 homicides within the city since January 1. That’s more than double the 23 we’d seen last year at this point. Five people were killed last weekend alone – four of them by guns – prompting both Police Chief Mark Saunders and Mayor John Tory to express public concern over a recent spike in shooting deaths. “The incidents of gun violence we have seen in our city in the past few days are shocking and can in no way be accepted or brushed aside”, said Mayor Tory late last month following a rash of high-profile killings. “As mayor, I am troubled by every act of violence in our city regardless of where it happens”. I’m pretty sure Toronto is gonna break a murder record set in 1991 anyways (when it endured 89 murders). The earliest time when the city had 48 murders in 1991 was on July 1st.
University of Toronto Associate Professor of Criminology Scot Wortley, an expert in crime statistics, says that, based on an estimated population of 2.93 million, Toronto has a current crime rate of 1.67 per 100,000 people. New York City, which has an estimated population of 8.62 million, had seen 130 homicides at the same point, according to the NYPD’s CompStat crime data portal. Wortley says this would put New York’s homicide rate at 1.51 per 100,000 people.
“So yes – Toronto is slightly higher than NYC”, says Wortley. “However, these homicide rates are far lower than other major U.S. and Canadian cities”. It’s also of note that NYC has seen a marked decrease in its overall crime rate over the past few years. So... take this little factoid with a grain of salt. And you don’t have to freak out too much over the spike in shootings just yet, says Saunders.
“Historically, when it comes to gun play in the city, there are peaks and valleys, and when we hit those peaks everybody gets alarmed, and then it calms down”, said the police chief in an interview on Monday. “During those moments where the peaks are occurring, we have to remember what the patterns have been telling us, year after year”.
(Adapted from https://www.blogto.com/city/2018/06/toronto-homicide-rate-now-higher-new-york/.)
The text was posted in June, 2018, and some of the information concerns the period between January to June of various years. According to the text, mark which of the information bellow is true (T) or false (F):
( ) The number of murders in Toronto, by the time the text was posted, was somewhere around twice as high as the number of murders of the previous year (also compared with the same period of 2017).
( ) The author considers that 2018 may break a new record in the number of murders in Toronto, which was in the year of 1991.
( ) The first half of the years of 2018 and 1991 displayed roughly similar numbers of murder cases in Toronto.
( ) If the author’s predictions are correct, by the end of 2018 no more than 80 murders may be recorded in Toronto.
Mark the alternative that indicates which of the sentences above are true and which are false, from top to bottom.
