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Thanks for the info. I've tried to wrap my head around Canada lately... After I met some super xenophobic Canadians online, cheering for Trump and his ICE, demanding a white ethno-state for Canada as well... They "taught" me a lot about Indians... That wasn't BC, though. I think the Greater Toronto Area... I still have some reading up to do. Canada isn't regularly on the news here, so my knowledge is limited.

I guess I can't compare "my" city to a port city, or a capital city or anything like that. I figure we'd expect organized crime to be more prevalent in such places? It's probably better for me since I do live in a densely populated urban area as well. But it's more in some unimportant place somewhere in the middle, without any direct significance to the criminals. We sure have immigrants who aren't integrated into society and that's problematic. We have some street gangs or clans about here. They're on the news every now and then and stab each other. They don't really slice up regular people, though. Just each other. So I feel kinda safe. And it's not a daily thing by any means. Sometimes mentally ill people wreck havoc and we're reminded of them by the big concrete blocks around the Christmas market. Could happen any day that someone rams a vehicle in a crowd. Fortunately it's been a while, and there's the blocks as defense now. And people refuse to surrender. They'll still go there and have fun. And I think that's the right thing to do. What I saw as well is how the proper homeless people in the shopping district got displaced by professional, organized beggars in the last few weeks. Happens always around Christmas, and that's not nice at all.

I mean other than that, there's always a difference between perceived safety. And real safety. Just by the numbers it's not too bad. My parents had way more domestic terrorists, Hells Angels etc when they were young. Kidnappings, hijackings. That's all come down significantly and we're doing better with these things and organized for quite some time now. We're headed the right direction.

As with Canada, I don't know the numbers. I've just about finished reading about the immigrants, housing in the urban areas and how it's all connected, demographics and what kind of things the government does and doesn't do... And I didn't get to crime yet. And I don't really understand the scale of the Indian people added to the cities. A organized gang, funded from abroad doesn't sound like a welcome thing to me.

The issue with neo-liberalism should be pretty universal, though. We all just can't have a society made up just of super-rich and very poor people. Of course people without money and opportunity might either get closer to drugs, or seek opportunity elsewhere. Probably crime if that's the only option. And organized crime needs to be fought, I think pretty much all people agree on that. And we need to take care of the people in need and sick people. Preferably before their mental illness makes them murder someone.