You Must Die - Get the Point

2 teen stabbings probed by Saskatoon police

Stabbing in Saskatoon
Police charge woman

Stabbing In Saskatoon
17 year-old treated for injuries

Saskatoon police lay charges in three Monday night stabbings

Saskatoon man charged with attempted murder following April stabbing


Above are a list of headings from the last week or so on knife related crimes in the City of Saskatoon.
Despite that, the Chief of Police for the City of Saskatoon,Clive Weighill, appeared on John Gormleys News Talk Radio program and like Mayor Don Atcheson insists that claims that Saskatoon is a dangerous city are incorrect. (ie Macleans Magazine)
The Chief pointed out that several lower mainland cities in British Columbia had higher murder rates than Saskatoon and one
city in particular had more murders in one night than Saskatoon had in the previous year. It was something like 4 - 2.
It must be comforting to stab victims everywhere in Saskatoon that in order for the Police Chief and possibly the Mayor to consider your stabbing attack as dangerous and serious you must die first. I mean really is that what they are saying?
I really don't care if Saskatoon is Canada's most dangerous city or if Regina is or if its somewhere else. But it seems everyday
there is at least one knife attack reported and sometimes more. I recently spent a week in Kelowna. Everyday I read the paper
and there was not one knife attack reported. In the same week I was gone, there were four in Saskatoon including two in one night.
If the Police Chief and the Mayor are both in denial, it makes me wonder how the problem of knifings, gang attacks, break and enters and other crimes will ever be resolved in Saskatoon. Maybe it won't be.
Till then if you are attacked at knife point and you die, thats serious, if you don't, well just consider it another average day in Saskatoon and comfort yourself with knowing, you are not in Canada's most dangerous city.

Added Tuesday July 7th. Heres what happened last night in the city the Mayor and Police Chief describe as safe and not
Canada's most dangerous.
Broken Bottle-Wielding Attackers Run Loose
Police say two men injured

Some vicious assaults Monday night in Saskatoon's core neighborhood.
Just after 10 p.m, a 42-year-old man was robbed as he walked home from work near 22nd Street and Avenue S.
He was pretty cut up. Police say the suspects had attacked him with broken bottles.
Then about an hour later, just a block away, a 26-year-old man was in his vehicle stopped at a light, when he was pulled out of the car by a group of attackers also wielding broken bottles.
The culprits stole the vehicle. It was later recovered.
The man suffered serious injuries.
So far no arrests have been made.