First homicide of the year
Thursday saw the first homicide of the year, a young man shot dead behind Joliette metro. As the formula goes, he was known to police – Walid Meddane did time for beating up an Uber driver in 2016.
I’ve started the tote board for 2021 in the sidebar, and have also started a new map with separate layers to show locations of homicides and of pedestrian deaths in traffic. I’ll leave the 2020 tote board up for a little while longer, and its Google maps won’t go away.
david455 01:34 on 2021-01-09 Permalink
What’s the over/under for exceeding 2020 murders?
On the one hand, you have more people out and about in 2021, surely. On the other hand, most of North America saw spikes in murders, and there’s a good argument that the places that didn’t would have seen even bigger drops but for the whole covid thing.
What do we think? Higher or lower?
Kate 11:16 on 2021-01-09 Permalink
I’m guessing it will remain around the same. We had 32 homicides in 2018, 25 in 2019, and 25 again in 2020. Item on this. So the various lockdowns and measures we lived through in most of 2020 made no appreciable difference, and I don’t think that will change for 2021.