StarEditorial: In contrast to adding more and more police, measures are needed that focus on addressing the social and psychological factors that lead to violence.
These stories were supposed to be a thing of the past. Amid a flurry of violent incidents on the TTC, the Toronto Police Service announced in late January that it would utilize overtime patrols to increase law enforcement presence in the transit system., but said it would continue to provide police presence with on-duty officers.
Unfortunately, we have little in the way of answers. We do know that the police made more than 363 arrests on the TTC with help from the overtime officers, and that they referred some 237 people to social services. Data from February and the first half of March won’t be available until mid-April, but given the natural variance in crime rates, the six-week experiment was too brief to draw robust conclusions anyway. And even if the data do demonstrate a significant benefit, the price of overtime patrols — an estimated $1.7 million a month — is unsustainably expensive.
That suggests the problem is a lot bigger than the TTC — and the solution must similarly confront violence on a much larger scale. That means addressing violence in the city rather than just on the TTC, and tackling its root causes rather than merely responding to violence when it occurs.While grieving the loss of her son Gabriel, she told the Star that the “senseless violence” isn’t one with a short-term solution.
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