Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you live in the Potemkin Village that is downtown and midtown?
The problem is the bad areas are virtually THE ENTIRE REST OF THE CITY. Any detached building is generally unsafe. The vast majority of the city is "the 'hood" as you call it. And she wasn't "hanging out"; she wasn't on a street corner. She was in a building. This building was not an after-hours club, drug house, blind-pig, or brothel.
Since we've all decided to shit on Toronto and make the dubious claim that it is somehow like Detroit, in 2007 the
homicide rate for the city of Toronto was 3.3 per 100,000 people, yet for
Detroit it was 33.8.
I like Detroit; I live in Detroit. Because I like Detroit, I am mad as hell about the crime rate and find it totally unacceptable. I will not make excuses or blame the victim like the rest of the Detroit boosters here.
Way to call her an idiot, by the way. Really classy.