Sheppard West

The story of police understaffing has been somehow dominating the headlines for quite a while. Although there are far more police per capita in Toronto than in London for instance, Toronto police officers are reportedly so “demoralized” that they took a symbolic vote against Chief Mark Saunders.

In an eerie reminder of the gossip about Mafia presence in our backyard, an abandoned car following an accident had been found to have a few weapons.

The unfortunate events of the past few days included an accident and stabbing. Quite a few crimes took place elsewhere in our city, but here we cover our neighbourhood alone.

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A man was shot in the ankle at Jane and Finch on Thursday night.

We often hear about police killing suspects unnecessarily. That is why we need to celebrate police officers who do their job correctly and arrest an almost suicidal suspect.

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Although seldom talked about, Toronto Police practice of carding is considered abusive mostly by the black community and, sadly, considered justify mainly by people in the white majority. It is perhaps for this reason that the newly minted Toronto Police Chief has vowed to keep it, despite belonging himself to the "black" minority.

It was our current Police Chief who, as the lead author of a secret internal 2012 report, exonarated the Force of racism in carding.