Downtown Corridor Most Violent In Toronto
Posted January 22, 2010 10:51 am.
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A downtown corridor barely a kilometre long and less than half a kilometre wide is the most violent in Toronto.
That’s according to a study published this month out of St. Michael’s Hospital.
The area bordered by Jarvis Street to the east, Carlton Street to the north, Sherbourne Street in the west and Queen Street to the south is the most dangerous in the city, with the highest concentration of violent crime.
Researchers looked at the number of people who needed an ambulance and the number of people admitted to the emergency room in 2002 and 2004.
They included any assault-related injury (for example, they wrote, any “caused by a gun, knife, sharp or blunt object, or body part”). Those involving patient transfers, cardiac emergencies and non-injury emergencies were not included.
Among adults aged 18-64, violent injuries accounted for 4,587 ambulance dispatches and 10,693 emergency room admissions.
Patterns of Urban Violent Injury: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis
