Canada's homicide rate declines to 44-year low

[pampango]

The number of homicides in Canada last year fell to the lowest level in 44 years, according to Statistics Canada, a decrease the agency says was driven largely by fewer incidents in major cities and the western provinces.

In 2010, police reported 554 homicides in Canada, 56 fewer than the year before, the agency reported Tuesday, following a decade of relative stability. The homicide rate fell to 1.62 for every 100,000 population, its lowest level since 1966, the agency says.

The decrease follows a downward trend in Canada's overall crime rate in the past decade.

Stabbings, accounting for 31 per cent of homicides, were nearly as common in 2010 as shootings, at 32 per cent. Another 22 per cent of homicides involved beatings, while eight per cent were by strangulation or suffocation. The remaining homicides used other means such as motor vehicles, fire and poisoning.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/10/26/homicides-statscan.html

[sadbear]

1. SOCIALISTS!!!!

[Denninmi]

2. Gee, I'm not surprised.

I listen to a lot of Canadian stations on the radio on my daily commute. The difference in the two cultures is quite interesting. Canadian radio stations remove references to violence from their programming (not news, of course, but music, etc.). American stations censor references to sex. Which does the most harm to a society in the long run?

[cleanhippie]

3. Canada is not dominated by right-wing religious wing-nuts.

:shrug: