Originally Posted by
ctt1wbw New York isn't that violent. Maybe around Yankee Stadium, but I think New York gets a bad rap. I spent a week there during Fleet Week and couldn't have had a better time.
Well, to put it in perspective, there were about 838 murders in New York in 2008. 510 in Chicago.
In Toronto, there were only 70 for that same year. New York has more than 10x as many murders as Toronto, and that's not a rare comparison.
Toronto has violent areas too as does any city, but the total numbers are undeniably different.