From: "John Beamish" 

Three citations:

1.  http://canadaonline.about.com/od/crime/a/abolitioncappun.htm Abolition
of Capital Punishment in Canada Murder Rates in Canada

The removal of capital punishment from the Canadian Criminal Code in 1976
has not led to an increase in the murder rate in Canada. In fact,
Statistics Canada reports that the murder rate for 2003 was the lowest
since 1967 at 1.73 murders for every 100,000 population.

The total number of murders in Canada in 2003 was 548, 34 fewer than in 2002.

Murder rates in Canada are generally about a third of those in the United States.

2.  http://canadaonline.about.com/od/crime/a/crimerates2003.htm Violent
Crime in Canada

The violent crime rate in Canada has fallen 11 percent since 1993.

The homicide rate for Canada went down 7 percent in 2003 to its lowest
level in over 35 years. A total of 548 homicides were reported to police.

Saskatchewan had the highest homicide rate in the country, and the four
Atlantic provinces had the lowest homicide rates in Canada.

{JB:  2003 stats:  Ohio population 11 million, 526 murders; Canada ~30
million; 548 murders)

3.  http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/legal12a.htm Canadian murder stats.






On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:46:21 -0500, Geo.  wrote:

> And yet in Ohio where we have a concealed carry law
> http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/ohcrime.htm
>
> Geo.
>
> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> news:45a101b1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/01/06/city_hall
_pushed_to_buy_15m_system_to_track_gunshots/
>>
>> "Boston city councilors, law enforcement officials, and community
>> leaders
>> are pressing City Hall to come up with $1.5 million to buy a promising
>> acoustic gunshot-detection system.
>>
>> The sensor system could blanket a 5.6-square-mile swath of the city's
>> most
>> dangerous neighborhoods -- the source of 80 to 85 percent of calls
>> citywide
>> reporting shots fired -- and give officers a jump on arresting suspects,
>> improve police response time to 911 calls, and possibly reduce firearm
>> violence, proponents say."
>>
>> http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070106/D8MG2T1G0.html
>>
>> "NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With at least eight slayings in the city in the
>> first
>> week of the new year, officials are considering a curfew to help stem
>> the
>> violence, the police superintendent said Saturday."
>>
>> Guess what?  Most of the civilised world doesn't want to live like this.
>>
>> --  Phil Payne
>>  http://www.isham-research.co.uk
>>  +44 7833 654 800
>>
>>
>

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