Regarding the safety of letting your kids walk to school or the playground in the inner city due to all the scary people around:
There are 3 child murders per million children in Canada. So about 21 per year.
Of those, 10% are committed by strangers.
So 2 child murders per year by strangers, in all of Canada.
151 children died in motor vehicle fatalities in 2021. 18.4% of those were pedestrians. So ~28 kids (assuming kids are as likely to be killed as adults, which is not true. They are harder to see, and bike more).
So you’re ~10x likely to get killed by a car walking or biking as you are to get murdered by ANY stranger.
A quick google of homeless people murdering kids yields zero results.
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