Statistically speaking, if you don’t want to get murdered, don’t join a gang, be in a relationship, or be homeless
In a recent interview with Vancouver Kyla Lee for an episode of my new podcast (Something Worth Hearing), I was discussing two unrelated homicides that each happened to have occurred in a mobile home park.
Given that and prior conversations we have had about domestic violence and drug dealers killing one another she quipped “If you don’t want to get murdered, don’t be in a gang, don’t live in a trailer park, and don’t be in a relationship.”
I just did a very rough count of the homicides in Chilliwack over the last decade. In that unscientific estimation, 69 per cent of the homicides were connected to those unrelated categories: trailer parks, romantic partner violence, or criminal associates killing one another.
But I would add to those categories, don’t be financially destitute forced to live in precarious places. In other words, don’t be homeless.
By my count, 17 per cent of the homicides were not in one or more of those categories above. And 14 per cent of those deaths were destitute folks living on the streets or homeless adjacent, killing one another.
