Toronto 90 murders too many, thanks to failed policies of John Tory

No more excuses. Just solutions.

And instead letting those who helped create the deadly problem spin their nonsense, replace them with people who don’t tie the police’s hands behind their collective back.

When you are at a record 90 murders, those who made the decisions to end information carding, cut TAVIS, the size of the guns and gangs unit, not have enough deployment strength to staff some murders and who bowed to anti-police activist groups should not be the ones explaining how to repair it.

What has happened in 2018 — which still has six weeks to get to 100 homicides — is as disgraceful than suggestions this is merely a bigger city than it was in 1991, which saw 89 murders.

Toronto only had 66 last year, you’ll remember.

Those who talk about asterisk on the 10-murders in one day Yonge Street van attack avoid asking how many could have been killed along the Danforth or in playgrounds but were saved by EMS!

Don’t just count the homicides. Count the bullets.

Blame political correctness and soft-on-criminals politicians.

Premier Kathleen Wynne and her Attorney General Yasir Naqvi deserve most of the criticism. Rather than support police they stripped them of their effectiveness.

The Liberals’ asinine mantra to put almost everybody out on bail (many of whom were already out on bail) until their trial was tantamount to malfeasance.

“This homicide total is not something anyone, including me, can accept,” admits Mayor John Tory.

“The people of Toronto know there is no magic answer, and we all pray that events like the Yonge Street van attack, which took ten lives earlier this year, will never happen again.”

You can tell he doesn’t know what to do. Even he must know prayers or magic are not enough.

Tory says people know there’s no magic answer, but they also know the record happened on his watch.

They also know he caved to the Wynne government and their failed policies and buckled to activists without careful consideration of the consequences of handcuffing police.

Racial profiling is unacceptable, intolerable and dispicable.

But people know the mayor should have stood up for the police and advocated a simple removal of imposed quotas that could have reduced carding concerns. Without some form of street checks that permits police to keep tabs on criminals and suspicious activity in high needs neighbourhoods, there’s little to keep gangs and criminals from carrying guns freely, and using them – which is exactly what’s happened.

Instead, Tory and his Liberal friends suspended policing in Toronto.

“I am absolutely determined to see us do better next year and every future year. I know with the public’s help we can keep Toronto safe.”

Sound convincing?

Will his David Miller-esque ban on legal guns owned by target shooters and collectors keep one illegal gun out of gangsters’ hands?

Tory should not be the one leading efforts to reduce gangs, guns, shooting and murder in Toronto.

If he wants to help, he could start by vacating his seat on the Toronto Police Services Board in favour of someone who has not failed so miserably on this file.

Thanks to the poor decisions of politicians, just about every thug on the street are freely carrying guns because they know police are powerless.

All because a few people with agendas, politicians threw out common sense and handed the city over to the killers.

The result is a record 90 murders — many innocent victims caught in the crossfire of this madness.

Rest in Peace Rocco Scavetta, 65, Ruma Amar, 29, Nnamdi Ogba, 26, Matthew Staikos, 37, Jenas Nyarko, 31 Reese Fallon, 18 and Julianna Kozis, 10.

There are no excuses for your murders and no solutions to prevent the next innocents to join you in death.
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