What an interesting question pops up in Google: Is Niagara dangerous? And the answer?
Niagara Falls is in the 9th percentile for safety, meaning 91% of cities are safer and 9% of cities are more dangerous. The rate of crime in Niagara Falls is 65.71 per 1,000 residents during a standard year. People who live in Niagara Falls generally consider the southeast part of the city to be the safest.
Is that New York or Ontario's Niagara's Falls? It turns out to be Yew York: Niagara Falls, N.Y. has a D- overall crime grade. Violent crime grade F, Property crime grade A+ and Other Crime grade D-. The overall crime rate is 83.33 - very high. This number comes from numbeo.com - the world's largest cost of living database.
How about Niagara Falls, Ontario? The retrieved answer is: there is virtually no crime in this area. The crime index says 36.95 and safety index 63.05. Level of crime is rated as low, but crime increasing in the past 3 years is rated high. These numbers come from numbeo.com too. The overall quality of life index says very high. That is higher than Hamilton at high, and Toronto at very high. And if you compare Niagara Falls, N.Y. with Buffalo, it has more crime there too. The overall crime index for Bufalo is 44.36, and the safety index 55.65. It's level of crime is considered moderate.
When we were children, it was our understanding that Niagara Falls, Canada with its tourist industry was considered a city with more organized crime than in St. Catharines or other nearby towns. I don't know how we as children got this sense. Maybe it was the newspapers reporting on criminals who vanished in the area. That was the case with Peter Mitchell in 1959. Or other reports such as MacLeans article on organized crime's grip on Ontario. Maybe someone can tell me how we got these ideas.
Here's what is interesting. Canada is generally so safe that I hadn't considered looking at these numbers, or asking the Google pop up question.
Here's my most frequent view of Niagara - the greenhouses.
