frank theriault wrote: > Toronto is still a pretty safe place. There were 78 murders in 2005. > For a city of some 2.5 million people, that's low by any standard. > That number is a bit higher than average, but not shockingly > so; indeed, it's not the record. > > The problem is that 52 of them were with firearms. That is > by far the highest number ever killed with guns. It's not > just the numbers, but the way it's happened. Many of the > murders and shootings seem gang-related, and are happening in > crowded places during the day. > Drive-by shootings at shopping malls, and kids getting into > gunfights at high schools, those sorts of things. > > Even sadder, is that Jane Creba was not the only innocent > death this year as a result of gunplay in public places. Her > death enraged the city because it was so senseless.
I have no idea how many such murders happened in London, but mostly people pass by such scenes without a second glance. Recently, I compared a local paper from 1970, to one of 2005. Making a big story on page 2, was the story of a theft of a few very small items from a high street store. I can't imagine any such story ever making the local paper today, unless it was a well know local. Somewhere in the last 35 years, murder today is often reported with less indignity than minor shoplifting was then and I find that really disturbing. A great photo Frank, and good use of such a lens for the scene. And so Shel doesn't get upset, here's the link again: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4068318&size=lg Malcolm
