I found the following information on "World-wide Quality of Life", publication from March 2005 from Mercer Human Ressource Consulting.

 

North America
All of the Canadian cities covered by the survey appear in the top 20 rankings for personal safety and security. Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver rank jointly in position 18 with scores of 112.

 

 

 

Here is the complete recap from the survey. Very interesting.

 

 

 

§                    Luxembourg scores highest for personal safety and security; Baghdad scores lowest

§                    Canadian cities top the rankings for safety and security in North America

§                    For overall quality of life, Geneva, and Zurich rank top; Baghdad scores lowest

 

Luxembourg ranks as the world’s top city for personal safety and security, according to a quality of life survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. The city scores 122.5 followed by Helsinki, Bern, Geneva, and Zurich which take joint second place with scores of 120.

 

Scores for personal safety and security are based on relationships with other countries, internal stability, and crime, including terrorism. Law enforcement, censorship, and limitations on personal freedom are also taken into account. (See Notes below for details.)

 

Cities are ranked against New York as the base city, which has a rating of 100. The analysis is part of a worldwide quality of life survey, covering 215 cities, to help governments and major companies to place employees on international assignments.

 

The Japanese cities of Omuta, Kastuyama, Tsukuba, and Yokkaichi score highest in Asia (joint 14th place with scores of 112.5), while Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver rank top in North America, in joint 18th place (score 112).

 

“The top-ranking cities for personal safety and security are in politically stable countries with good international relations and sustainable economic growth,” said Slagin Parakatil, Senior Researcher at Mercer. “Most of the low-scoring cities are in countries with civil unrest, little law enforcement, and high levels of crime.”

 

The world’s least secure city is Baghdad (Iraq), with a score of 5 due to ongoing civil unrest and threats of attack in the city. Other low-ranking cities include Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, Bangui in Central African Republic, and Port Harcourt and Lagos in Nigeria , which score 24, 26.5, 32.5, and 32.5 respectively. These countries continue to experience political turmoil and low economic growth.

 

Western Europe
Many Western European cities appear at the top of the rankings. Luxembourg scores highest for personal safety and security, followed by Swiss and Scandinavian cities. Other high-scoring cities include Vienna, ranked 6th with a score of 116, followed by Düsseldorf, Munich, Nürnberg, Frankfurt, and Oslo, sharing 8th place with scores of 113.

 

In contrast, Athens, Rome, and London appear at the lower end of the rankings for this region, at positions 83, 74, and 69 respectively (score 93.5, 95.5, and 99), due to high levels of petty crime. Madrid also scores relatively low, sharing 69th position with London, due to terrorism.

 

Eastern Europe
Cities in Eastern European cities generally rank lower than those in Western Europe. Ljubljana in Slovenia scores highest for personal safety and security, at position 41 with a rating of 105, followed by Bratislava in Slovakia and Prague in the Czech Republic in joint 58th place scoring 100.

 

“Some Eastern European cities have gained higher scores in the rankings due to their accession to the European Union,” said Mr Parakatil. “There are noticeable differences in personal safety and security scores between many Eastern and Central European cities.”

 

Russian cities score poorly due to high crime rates, economic turmoil, and lack of internal stability. Moscow, Novosibirsk, Kazan, and St Petersburg take positions 198, 179, 179, and 175 respectively, with scores of 41.5, 52.5, 52.5, and 53.5.

 

North America
All of the Canadian cities covered by the survey appear in the top 20 rankings for personal safety and security. Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver rank jointly in position 18 with scores of 112.

 

In the US, Honolulu, Houston, Lexington, San Francisco, and Winston Salem rank highest in joint 45th position with scores of 104. Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Portland, and New York all follow in 58th place with scores of 100. The lowest scoring city in North America is Atlanta, ranked 90 with a score of 90.5, due to street crime and burglary.

 

In Mexico, Monterrey and Mexico City rank 87 and 126, scoring 92 and 72.5 respectively.

 

Dogo wrote:

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Am I the only one who feels incredibly safe in this city? hard to believe most of you come from a latin american country! have any of you lived in a major city in your respective countries? saaaaay......more than a year?... I'd bet "doguito" you got robbed at least once!

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I hear what you're saying, but really, you know when you're in a place that's about out to have some holes in it. especially when chicks (i use that term loosely) are fighting each other. Guys i could care less about. Being a thug in t.o. is nothing like being one in NY, where you've got bullet holes in the stairwells, and there's someone always watching the cars in the window ledge. These thugs are immitations, but i'm glad that they are immitations, because if they were real, things would be a lot worse, and they'd be driving legitimate thug-mobiles with style, rather than their mom's honda with CDN-TIRE spinners.

It's going to suck that the aventura show is all ages, sometimes the kids should be put in a play pen, and taught how to play nice together.

DulceGalletita wrote:

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Dogo wrote: Am I the only one who feels incredibly safe in this city? hard to believe most of you come from a latin american country! have any of you lived in a major city in your respective countries? saaaaay......more than a year?... I'd bet "doguito" you got robbed at least once! Aishhhhhhh Dogo, leave Doguito out of this ... But I agree you have a point ... I think this could have happened anywhere ... But my prayers with the man and his famliy!

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Yes of course, I agree and apologize. My reply was a bit off topic.... this shouldn't happen here or anywhere, but my point being it doesn't happen here as often as we're made to believe it does

Am I the only one who feels incredibly safe in this city? hard to believe most of you come from a latin american country! have any of you lived in a major city in your respective countries? saaaaay......more than a year?... I'd bet "doguito" you got robbed at least once!

I feel as safe here as I ever could in a LARGE city

I agree something has to be done to KEEP it safe, but I think we're blowing it waaaaaay out of proportion!!.... 50 some murders in a city of, what? about 3.000.000 people?? you think that rate is high???!!!!

 

Look at these stats of "the safest city in north america"

Since 1991, New York City has seen a continuous seventeen-year trend of decreasing crime and is now the safest large city in the United States. Neighborhoods that were once considered dangerous are now thriving with new businesses and housing, and many residents feel safe to walk the streets late at night. Violent crime in the city has dropped by 75% in the last twelve years and the murder rate in 2004 was at its lowest level in over forty years: there were 559 murders that year, for a murder rate of 7 per 100,000 people, compared to 2,245 murders in 1990. As of December 30, 2005 there had been 537 killings in the city, according to the department's latest marking-period reports that are issued weekly. Some feel that the implementation of COMPSTAT crime analysis by the NYPD in 1994 is responsible for the positive changes.

Overall, New York City had a rate of 2,801.6 crimes per 100,000 people in 2004, compared with 8,959.7 in Dallas; 7,903.7 in Detroit; 7,402.3 in Phoenix; 7,346.8 in San Antonio; 7,194.8 in Houston; 5,470.5 in Philadelphia; 4,376.0 in Los Angeles; and 4,102.7 in San Diego.

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Toronto

Crime (including violent crime) in Toronto has been generally decreasing over the past decade. Toronto's violent crime rates are extremely low compared to many cities in the US (in 1999, Toronto had 1.3 homicides per 100,000 people compared to Houston's 13.4, Chicago's 15.65 (2004), and Washington, DC's 35.7!!! (2004) and comparable to rates in larger European centres, and are low even compared with other Canadian cities.

This morning at 3:30am

I just hope Caña Dulce's father recovers from this. My prayers go out to him and his family. You guys should do the same.

mad luv

LaDyBuG wrote:

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DulceGalletita wrote: Flaco wrote: i'm not surprised it happened at Brisas. too bad about the old man. Ummmm, has there been other shootings at Las Brisas??? shootings....fights.....cat fights......u name it.....lol

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Oh really!! Girl, I'm soo lost then ... And I have lived within the area for so MANY years ..

Flaco wrote:

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i'm not surprised it happened at Brisas. too bad about the old man.

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Ummmm, has there been other shootings at Las Brisas???

Isn't someone singing KUMBAYA on Wednesday morning???

PRECIOSA wrote:

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@  EL REP AND ANGELITA DOLCE THAT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE TOLD ME THIS... HOW ABOUT IF WE JUST HOLD HANDS TOGETHER AND WALK...

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That's Me Smiling In The Middle

Sweet Ideas From Trouble Maker # 3 

PRECIOSA wrote:

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HOLY...ANOTHER SHOOTING... THIS IS LUDICROUS... EVERY FREAKEN WEEKEND THERE IS A SHOOTING...CLOSER AND CLOSER TO HOME... IT'S NOT SAFE ANYWHERE ANYMORE...NOT AT MALLS...RESTURANTS...WALMART ANYWHERE...THIS IS GETTING OUT OF CONTROL.... IF IT'S NOT A SHOOTING...IT'S A STABBING...IF IT'S NOT A STABBING...IT'S THEFT... LAST WEEK ME AND A FRIEND OF MINE WENT TO VAUGHAN MILLS TO DO A LITTLE SHOPPING...WE WERE THERE FOR NO JOKE ONE HOUR...MIND YOU IT WAS POURING RAIN OUTSIDE...WE CAME OUT RUNNING TO THE CAR CAUSE IT WAS POURING MY FRIEND TURNS HER WIND SHED WIPPERS ON AND THEY WERE GONE...(YES THEY WERE GONE)  A FOOL TOOK THEM AND WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE...??? BEATS ME... ANOTHER TIME MY COUSIN WAS AT THE SAME MALL...SHE WAS IN THE MALL FOR THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME ONE HOUR OR SO AND WHEN SHE GOT BACK TO HER CAR...BOTH TIRES ON THE PASSANGER SIDE WERE GONE... INSTEAD OF SITUATIONS GETTING BETTER WITH ALL THIS PUBLICITY AND WORKING HARD TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE...IT SEEMS TO ME IT'S GETTING WORSE...WITH MORE CRIMES IN PUBLIC PLACES...

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Are u serious.. that's messed up this crimimal don't rected anything now

PRECIOSA wrote:

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HOLY...ANOTHER SHOOTING... THIS IS LUDICROUS... EVERY FREAKEN WEEKEND THERE IS A SHOOTING...CLOSER AND CLOSER TO HOME... IT'S NOT SAFE ANYWHERE ANYMORE...NOT AT MALLS...RESTURANTS...WALMART ANYWHERE...THIS IS GETTING OUT OF CONTROL.... IF IT'S NOT A SHOOTING...IT'S A STABBING...IF IT'S NOT A STABBING...IT'S THEFT... LAST WEEK ME AND A FRIEND OF MINE WENT TO VAUGHAN MILLS TO DO A LITTLE SHOPPING...WE WERE THERE FOR NO JOKE ONE HOUR...MIND YOU IT WAS POURING RAIN OUTSIDE...WE CAME OUT RUNNING TO THE CAR CAUSE IT WAS POURING MY FRIEND TURNS HER WIND SHED WIPPERS ON AND THEY WERE GONE...(YES THEY WERE GONE)  A FOOL TOOK THEM AND WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE...??? BEATS ME... ANOTHER TIME MY COUSIN WAS AT THE SAME MALL...SHE WAS IN THE MALL FOR THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME ONE HOUR OR SO AND WHEN SHE GOT BACK TO HER CAR...BOTH TIRES ON THE PASSANGER SIDE WERE GONE... INSTEAD OF SITUATIONS GETTING BETTER WITH ALL THIS PUBLICITY AND WORKING HARD TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE...IT SEEMS TO ME IT'S GETTING WORSE...WITH MORE CRIMES IN PUBLIC PLACES...

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Ummm, remind me not to go with you to VAUGHAN MILLS next weekend!!! LOL!! Or better yet, you park on one side of the mall Entrance #1 and i park at entrance #5!! LOL!!

PRECIOSA wrote:

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HOLY...ANOTHER SHOOTING... THIS IS LUDICROUS... EVERY FREAKEN WEEKEND THERE IS A SHOOTING...CLOSER AND CLOSER TO HOME... IT'S NOT SAFE ANYWHERE ANYMORE...NOT AT MALLS...RESTURANTS...WALMART ANYWHERE...THIS IS GETTING OUT OF CONTROL.... IF IT'S NOT A SHOOTING...IT'S A STABBING...IF IT'S NOT A STABBING...IT'S THEFT... LAST WEEK ME AND A FRIEND OF MINE WENT TO VAUGHAN MILLS TO DO A LITTLE SHOPPING...WE WERE THERE FOR NO JOKE ONE HOUR...MIND YOU IT WAS POURING RAIN OUTSIDE...WE CAME OUT RUNNING TO THE CAR CAUSE IT WAS POURING MY FRIEND TURNS HER WIND SHED WIPPERS ON AND THEY WERE GONE...(YES THEY WERE GONE)  A FOOL TOOK THEM AND WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE...??? BEATS ME... ANOTHER TIME MY COUSIN WAS AT THE SAME MALL...SHE WAS IN THE MALL FOR THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME ONE HOUR OR SO AND WHEN SHE GOT BACK TO HER CAR...BOTH TIRES ON THE PASSANGER SIDE WERE GONE... INSTEAD OF SITUATIONS GETTING BETTER WITH ALL THIS PUBLICITY AND WORKING HARD TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE...IT SEEMS TO ME IT'S GETTING WORSE...WITH MORE CRIMES IN PUBLIC PLACES...

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fAC! Remind me never to have you in my ride . . .

Chale_Tanga wrote:

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JOKER_ESCO wrote:  No chale he is not the victim.. my bad.Okay Im just going to leave this thread now.Bye.

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LoL Nah come on don't leave...

confundida wrote:

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OK IM SUPPOSED TO BE THE CONFUSED ONE HERE.........CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TIS TO ME PLS!!!!!   SO EL VIEJO ANDABA POR RIVALDA Y LO MATARON POR COENCIDENCIA??? Y AHORA VAN A TRAER A NO SE KIEN KE LE VA A A SALIR UNA CAGADA DE PLATA???

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Confu, the reverend was already here to speak about stoping the violence ... when someone gets shot ...

Osea coincidence

Rivers is known for creating the so-called Boston Miracle, which helped reduce homicides in that city from 150 in 1990 to 31 in 1999.

 

@ JULIE

WHAT KIND OF MIRACLES ARE WE TALKIG ABOUT HERE?

OK IM SUPPOSED TO BE THE CONFUSED ONE HERE.........CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TIS TO ME PLS!!!!!

 

SO EL VIEJO ANDABA POR RIVALDA Y LO MATARON POR COENCIDENCIA??? Y AHORA VAN A TRAER A NO SE KIEN KE LE VA A A SALIR UNA CAGADA DE PLATA???

JOKER_ESCO wrote:

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LaDyBuG wrote: OK WAIT A MINUTE..... It’s costing the city $25,000 to bring the reverend here for a three-day visit, 25 THOUSAND DOLLARS???   Well if he makes a difference I think is worth it.....

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ARENT THEY BLAMING PARENTING IN SOME CASE?

"In some cases the real issue is parenting. A lot of young men haven’t been properly parented by their nuclear family or their larger community," Rivers said. "So the larger community must come behind and support the mothers frequently of young boys that get caught up in thug life."

THEY WHY NOT INVEST IN PARENTING CLASSES.....:confused:

All this is getting out of hand... this has to stop

LaDyBuG wrote:

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OK WAIT A MINUTE..... It’s costing the city $25,000 to bring the reverend here for a three-day visit, 25 THOUSAND DOLLARS???

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Well if he makes a difference I think is worth it.....

confundida wrote:

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LaDyBuG wrote: OK WAIT A MINUTE..... It’s costing the city $25,000 to bring the reverend here for a three-day visit, 25 THOUSAND DOLLARS??? KE CAGADA........TORONTO CAN REALLY USE THAT MONEY!!!!   WHY ARE WE BRINGING HIM ANYWAZ???

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To address the issue on gun violence

LaDyBuG wrote:

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OK WAIT A MINUTE..... It’s costing the city $25,000 to bring the reverend here for a three-day visit, 25 THOUSAND DOLLARS???

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KE CAGADA........TORONTO CAN REALLY USE THAT MONEY!!!!

 

WHY ARE WE BRINGING HIM ANYWAZ???

Ya, i saw it this morning. That's crazy!!

F@ck now U have 2 wear a Bulletproof Jacket every were u go