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Let's take a simpler example.
15 years ago Town A has population 100 and a metro area of 1km². 5 people are murdered in Town A,
Today Town A is now a City with a 100000 people. 100 people are murdered in a 100km² area.
In which instance is Town A safer? Simply because in a random act of senseless violence some poor kid gets blown away in front of a hundred people, while sad, does not make some place automatically an unsafe area. If your city grows, of course there's going to be more violence, there's more people! That's logic! It doesn't take a scientist to work it out. If violent crime is on the decrease, how does that make Toronto any less safe to live in? In all respects shouldn't that make it safer?
I'm not proving points about violence in Toronto. I'm proving points about violence in general. If the general trend in violent crimes is downwards... why does that make some place less safe than 10 years ago?
Hope for humanity all you like, but be pragmatic about it, not naive. Utopia does not exist because it cannot exist because of human nature. Accept that there are bad people in society. Hoping that the whole world will get together in a group hug singing kum-ba-yah is neither productive nor realistic.