In 2014, before street checks (a.k.a. carding) were abandoned because of concerns blacks were being unfairly targeted by police, there were 177 shootings, 242 victims and 27 deaths.Or you can just sail on... oblivious to all the death & maiming.
Compared to 2019, that means there has been a 166% increase in shootings, a 204% increase in the number of victims and a 52% increase in shooting deaths over the last five years.
We support the city’s plan to hire more police officers in 2020, to alleviate understaffing. But in addition to that, the sensible approach to combating violent urban street crime would be to restore strategies that worked in the past.
That means bringing back street checks and restoring the Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (TAVIS) — the gangs and guns squad — disbanded in early 2017 because of allegations that, like street checks, it was racist.
Hey... it ain't folk from my community that are being killed.
BREAKING: TORONTO - Homicide #75
Police say a man is dead following the reported sounds of machine gun fire early Friday morning in Etobicoke in The West Mall and Eva Road area.UPDATE: Victim identified as Domonic Romal Kelly, 26
