Police carding should be banned in Ontario, independent review says
After a recording breaking year for homicides, this judge winds up looking like a complete idiot.
There is no logic whatever to your statement.
First off, the murder/homicide rate is not at a record high, even when the 'van attack' is included.
Toronto's record for homicides was 1991, when there were 89 homicides; at a time when the population was 2.2 million. That indicates a homicide rate of slightly over 4 per 100,000
By contrast, 2018 will show a rate of 3.5 as the larger number of homicides is against a population of 2.8 million.
The Van attack being a complete outlier, and one that would not have been addressed in any way by carding, let's remove it from the numbers.
That reduces the homicide rate to 3.1 per 100,000
There is one further anomaly for this year, and that is the serial killer's numbers, most or all of which pre-date the current year, but which show up as homicides on this year's books, because they were discovered this year and charges laid this year.
Remove those and you get a homicide rate of 2.9.
That's still high by recent Toronto standards, but not near as staggering as the numbers seem at first blush.
Moreover, the remaining homicides are largely the result of gang conflict, and there is no material evidence to suggest that carding would any way suppress turf wars or revenge killings
That is not to suggest there is no value in carding, ever.
However, the value is often limited, if any, and rarely bares on the homicide rate.
This must be balanced against the social ill of over policiing and harassing certain groups and individuals in our city, based on race, geography and social-economic status.
It is an entirely reasonable conclusion that the social ill is greater than any marginal benefit.
You have been asked repeatedly to put thought into your posts; that might mean something as simple as reading an entire article, rather than just the headline; or questioning some of your knee-jerk assumptions.
I will ask again, please put in the work before making extreme statements that only serve to marginalize you as a poster.