Originally posted by manny321
no kharma dog, i said very seldom such public desperate acts happen like the guy who put himself on fire. Knife welding happens often i know but it only goes very public if it is on a busy street or if it is a odd ending.Many people think Toronto crime is high but i actually say not it is not. Its a fact and i read in a magazine (think it was McLean's or Canadian business) that it is low compared to the city in the prairies. KNife welding situations happen yes but not so publicly.
For a city almost 3 million 60 murders is low and the opinion of "the end of Toronto the good" is not from me but from the media and other people. So by having a low crime rate when something like the guy burning himself happens people have not seen that for a while, and think Toronto is messed. If alot of crap like this happens in a short period this idea develops. If it spaced over a year its normal but for example one i think 4-5 people got murdered in one weekend and people were saying it was a crime wave. If that happened over a month no one would care.
NOTE i think Toronto is safe other have that idea!! The idea of Toronto the good is created because it has a low crime rate for its size and has a big rep on that. When something real drastic happens people start questioing it. That why there is so much debate.
But I think that KD was trying to say is that the police in Toronto don't deal with the media as much as other police depts in other cities. Maybe that's why police corruption in Toronto is not known because the press don't get involved. To be honest I don't know how Toronto Police act, but you can't say that all the dept. is entirely good cops. There must be some lose ends.