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Toronto proves adept at curbing gun violence
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv...y/National/home
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TIMOTHY APPLEBY AND UNNATI GANDHI From Saturday's Globe and Mail ORONTO � The explosion of gun violence that convulsed Toronto last year, as the rest of the country looked on aghast, appears to have been checked by an aggressive package of police tactics that was three years in the making. After a small army of officers descended on the tough-as-nails Jamestown housing project in the city's northwest corner in May, scooping up scores of alleged gang members and associates, Police Chief Bill Blair warned that there could be no cure-all to the plague of shootings that killed a record 58 people under intense media glare in 2005. Six months later, he remains wary about waving victory flags. �There is no simple, quick fix,� Chief Blair said yesterday. �There are social, cultural, economic and demographic conditions that give rise to this violence, and I can't undo those things.� Maybe not. But something seems to be working As of Thursday, police were aware of 176 shooting incidents this year citywide, compared with 218 in the same 10-month period in 2005, a decline of more than 19 per cent. In that same time frame, 236 people were wounded by firearms, a 21-per-cent drop from the 2005 figure of 300. More guns were taken off the streets, too: 2,048 in 2006, versus 1,927 at the same time last year, a 6-per-cent increase. But the most dramatic tilt is in the gun-homicide tally. When 23-year-old Michael Linton died of his injuries yesterday morning, a week after he was shot in the downtown club district, the year's homicide total rose to 59, compared with 65 on Nov. 3, 2005. And among those 59 homicides, death came from the barrel of a gun just 25 times, compared with the 45 times recorded by this time last year � a 44-per-cent reduction. Moreover, the homicide squad's clearance rate � denoting an arrest or compelling evidence pointing to a suspect � is on an upswing. Accompanying last year's 78 homicides, 52 of which involved guns, was a dismal 53-per-cent clearance rate, compared with 86 per cent in 1993. In 2006, the rate stands at 63 per cent. *snip* |
or maybe most of the gangstas shot eacH other by now LOL
Wasn't there another shooting last night at "1zone" club or something. Door Man got hit in the chest while wearing a vest.
Ampz
lemme guess... another fine hip hop establishment?
crime stats are useless
Sorry, canadian gun laws wont prevent this kind of shit. When are people going to realize that criminals DO NOT BUY THEM LEGALLY? Restrict them all you want- That doesnt matter to criminals 99.9% of the time! I have more guns on my block in Amherst NY than Ontario has as a whole. Do we blow each other away? Why dont you look up the stats on Amherst NY compared to some canadian cities and see how much the guns have to do with the problem. Its the PEOPLE, PERIOD.
If you want to get rid of crimes, get rid of the criminals. Making guns harder to get for people that SHOULD be able to have them wont solve a thing- it wont change illegal weapons trade. Hell, take away every gun on the planet. Guess what? those stains-on-society will be cutting each others heads off with swords instead.
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| Originally posted by Jayx1 or maybe most of the gangstas shot eacH other by now LOL |
Gun laws didn't do anything here. Gun registration did squat.
The cops did a successful sweep of the gangs, and the gangs helped their arrests themselves with the DVDs they did to one-up each other. It wasn't a change in gun laws that made the cops arrest gang members.
Imagine that, it wasn't a hand-gun ban or some super-duper gun registry that helped deter gun-crime... It was the cops being allowed to do their fuckin job and arrest all the punk gangsters with guns!
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