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Women are far more likely to be the target of sexual
or domestic violence. Men are overall more likely to be physically assaulted by a stranger through. Men account for 80% of victims of assaults by strangers and 65% of all robbery victims:
https://www.victimsweek.gc.ca/res/r5...20the%20family. |
Thanks. Maybe it's just that what I've seen in news and media has so frequently been female victims.
More info on it specific to Vancouver:
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The perpetrator in almost half the stranger assaults used a weapon. And in one quarter of cases the suspect had a mental illness. Three of four victims of stranger attacks were male.
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But there is a vivid geographic pattern to the overall assault data in the city of Vancouver.
The data shows most assaults are in the dense northern sections of Vancouver — especially among the towers of the downtown business district and condos of Yaletown, where 1,779 assaults, or almost two in five, occurred in 2021.
The second highest number of assaults last year, 703, were in Strathcona, which includes the largely impoverished Downtown Eastside.
The West End, an apartment zone between Stanley Park and the business district, had the third-highest number of overall assaults, with 436. It is followed by Mount Pleasant (273) and Grandview-Woodland (258), which are also near downtown.
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https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/...g-to-vancouver
Wish there was more detailed contextual data, but even the VPD's open data for crime has only the most basic info.