[sunir]

Just some additional data on this for interested readers:

Chicago (2.8M) and Toronto (2.5M) are very similar cities, in size and standard of living. Toronto has about 1/7th the homicide rate. In 2008, Chicago had 509 homicides

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/jan/02/local/chi-hom...

In 2008, Toronto logged 70.

http://www.thestar.com/Article/560516

Mind you, Chicago also tops the U.S. for homicides per capita, so that may not be a fair comparison.

[tptacek]

I am constantly annoyed at all the homicides I have to step over every time I get off the homicide-laden trains in Chicago. I wish they'd do something about it. I see at least three at the Jackson stop every day. Sometimes there are even homicides in my back yard! It takes them forever to pick up, and if you just take them and put them by the garbage cans, the garbage trucks won't take them.

It's almost enough to make me want to move to Canada.