THOSE HOMICIDAL WINNIPEGGERS
-- "Statistics Canada says Winnipeg has the second highest homicide rate in Canada per 100,000 people, behind Thunder Bay, Ont. In 2020, Winnipeg's rate was 4.93, driven mainly by drugs and gangs, police say. There were 43 homicides in 2021, down slightly from the record of 44 in 2019, but Manitoba criminologists say the problem goes deeper than just drug addiction and gang involvement." --
LET'S DRILL DOWN A LITTLE -- "Kelly Gorkoff, an associate professor and chair of the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Winnipeg points to the unresolved effects of colonization on Indigenous people in the province, health care inequality, high child poverty rates, a lack of affordable housing and a lack of mental health and substance abuse supports." --
Ah, yes... it's all about the
systemic racism.
