Why is there so much crime in winnipeg?

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Certain areas of the city have terrible concentrations of poverty. A famous example is Winnipeg's North End. I do not mean the north side of Winnipeg, the North End refers to a smaller area more in the core, close to downtown. Generally if you cut Winnipeg in half along Portage avenue. Everything South of portage is relatively very safe and awesome place to live. And in the North half of Winnipeg, all along the outskirts of this is also very nice and generally very safe. As you move in to the middle where the North End, East Kildonan, the west end and downtown. These areas are generally sketchier and where most of the crime happens. Although please don't avoid downtown or the west end because this is where some of most fun and exciting things in Winnipeg happens. Contrary to popular belief Winnipeg is not boring and is probably one of the more exciting places I have lived in Canada. The opera, the orchestra, the theater, the museums, the bars, the live music in at least 10 venues on every single night of the week, the jets, the goldeyes, the bombers, Osborne Street. If you find Winnipeg boring, it is because you are a boring person.

Another issues which I don't want to sound racist but if you honestly want to talk about the issue of Winnipeg's crime rate then you need to mention this. "Aboriginal people made up 71 per cent of the prison population in Manitoba in 2008-09, while accounting for only 12 per cent of the overall population of the province"*. Please don't think I am mentioning this to be racist. The majority of aboriginals are professionals and artists and extremely hard working, awesome people. I think Manitoba reserves have serious problems especially with poverty. Many residential schools in Manitoba only closed in the 1980s and that was an extremely traumatic horrifying experience for most students and many aboriginals suffered from ptsd. So you can imagine that nearly every single aboriginal over the age of 35 has lived with this or knows someone close who has suffered from this. So I think time will heal a lot.

ROFL

Canada safe? A 101 year old war here gets home invaded & stabbed by a dude who pulled the same stuff at a triple murder in Ontario.

Steve Fonyo, Canadian hero, home invaded & stabbed in the back in BC....

Biker wars & murders....

Every kind of gang imaginable....

PFFT - the province of Quebec where most every politician is on the take of oranized crime.....

They riot of freaking hockey in Vancouver.....the cops just got lucky and stopped a St. Valentine's Day Massacre in the maritimes....

Cops shot everywhere....RCMP killed on the regular in Alberta....

And you hawk Winnipeg as the only crime problem in the country.....

I was mugged in Edmonton....yet 30 years in Winnipeg & THAT never happened.....

Oh yeah, and don't be army or reserves in Ottawa - either they run you down or just outright shoot you.

The violent crime rate in Winnipeg is about 119 per 100,000. The national average in Canada is 74 per 100,000 (all 2013 numbers). Winnipeg's rate is hardly significantly greater than the national average.

Major US cities have rates between 300 and some over 2,000 per 100,000. Santa Ana is 406, Portland 517, Denver 615, all the way up to St. Louis 1790, Oakland 1990, and Detroit 2210. Winnipeg is literally half of most 'safe' US cities, and under a tenth the violent crime rates as the top 10. Even the UK averages 78 per 100,000 have many cities well above Winnipeg's rates.

Winnipeg has a slightly higher violent crime rate due to various economic and social factors. Winnipeg mainly a resource, farming support, etc. city. It doesn't have the same level of affluence as a Vancouver, Calgary, or eastern cities. It has a lot of firearms ownership due to rural roots and support. Job opportunities for young people are not good. It is large enough to have drug dealing and organized crimes. It has a large percentage of first nations who are economically challenged. etc. However, many of these are true of many smaller rural areas which have higher crime rates also.