http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/12/eaton-centre-shooting-soon-forgotten
113 Reported shootings and 143 victims, up 36% and 47% over this time last year.
That's a pretty high number if you ask me but all they report is the number of murders. I'd say the murder count isn't as high as it could be for the simple fact that EMS and Doctors are better at saving lives than they used to be.
Anyone know a victim of a serious crime causing bodily harm this year? I do...
113 Reported shootings and 143 victims, up 36% and 47% over this time last year.
That's a pretty high number if you ask me but all they report is the number of murders. I'd say the murder count isn't as high as it could be for the simple fact that EMS and Doctors are better at saving lives than they used to be.
Anyone know a victim of a serious crime causing bodily harm this year? I do...
It may have been “one idiot with a gun” but it’s now two dead thanks to it.
Since it ‘was not gang related but just gang affiliated’ you don’t care about their names.
Thanks to a Soviet Union-style court order, I am not supposed to tell you them anyway.
But who cares? No one is going to miss those guys.
It’s not like anybody involved in this stuff would end up working with a children’s after-school program or anything.
Meanwhile, the 13-year-old boy who had brain surgery after being shot in the head in the Eaton Centre, thankfully has gone home to continue his just temporarily-interrupted young life. No big thing.
As illustrated by how few attended a vigil Monday night, pretty soon the Eaton Centre shooting of June 2, 2012, will be forgotten.
There’s not a Jane Creba to remember here.
It was, after all, just an “isolated incident” and doesn’t speak to the “state of affairs of Toronto.” It was merely an “unfortunate” location for some young people to have a “personal” disagreement.
And nothing bad has happened since.
That shooting Monday, where a guy was hit when eight shots were fired at 7 p.m. at Jane and Wilson, was just an anomaly. It's only happened 143 times this year.
We still haven't got the statistics on stabbings but they hardly ever happen.
Well, except for Sunday, when a man was stabbed at Queen and Woodbine with a screwdriver.
Just one idiot with a screwdriver.
Oh, and on Saturday in the always quiet summertime at Kensington Market, there were three people busted by a dozen coppers — some with guns drawn. One of those busted was, witnesses say, carrying a knife. Just an “unfortunate” location. No big deal.
Same goes for the mugging of a 25-year-old woman at Warden and Finch over the weekend.
Or the robbery-swarmings at Brown’s Line at Lakeshore and Birchmount Road and Sanwood.
Up in 32 Division on Yonge St. there was a 19-year-old struck in the head and stabbed in an aggravated assault. It happens.
A 27-year-old was robbed at John Garland Blvd. and Jamestown Cres. in 23 Division and there was a “robbery-mugging” by knife of a young couple at Brian Dr. and Old Sheppard Ave.
The Toronto Police website interrupts all of the muggings with five break-and-enter thefts of homes and businesses.
But back to robbery-muggings and robbery-swarmings.
It happened to a 19-year-old-man Gorevale Ave. and Queen West and a 22-year-old male at Assiniboine Rd. and Evelyn Wiggins Dr..
A 14-year-old girl was robbed and mugged at Troutbrooke Dr. and Jane St.
There was a “robbery (home invasion)” at Ling Road and Lawrence Ave. E., where “three male suspects forced their way inside” and “placed a pillowcase over her head and made a demand for cash” and then smacked her over the head. Just three more idiots with her money and jewelry.
Two boys 11 and 13 were robbed, mugged and sustained minor wounds near 14 Division at Dundas St. W. and Dufferin St.
Three idiots with a knife robbed a 26-year-old at Derrydown Rd. and Grandravine Dr.
A 28-year-old male was robbed at Piperbrook Cres. and Ling Rd. A 15-year-old boy was robbed at Queens Dr. and Jane St. Same thing happened to a 17-year-old boy Maple Leaf Dr. and Jane St.
Three 14-year-old boys were robbed at Royal York Rd. and Norseman St. by four suspects and one idiot in disguise.
On June 8, “a firearm was discharged at Trethewey Dr. and Brookhaven Dr.” and a “male victim sustained a gunshot wound and was dropped off at a hospital by unknown males,” but since it was in a more appropriate location for such a thing this is the first time most people have heard about it.
Don’t forget about the robbery and assault of an 11-year-old-girl at Exbury Rd. and Troutbrooke Dr. by two male suspects.
OK, I have run out of room. There are still three dozen more robbery-muggings in the past week on the Toronto Police website to tell you about — including one of an 82-year-old man.
In 2012, there have been 113 reported shootings and 143 victims, up 36% and 47% over this time last year.
But it’s all just isolated stuff.
Nothing to get to worked up about. We should just be happy to live in such a safe city.