Crime in Toronto, Canada

Toronto is becoming a weird city where police are never helpful to deal with crimes to protect the public.

But they come in squad cars to deal with petty disputes like someone being annoyed by pickup artists in clubs and malls, historical abuse cases aka Ghomeshi's Law, and they go after private citizens who criticize public servants using an archaic defamation law.

Very weird city with hints of British feudalism and nobility laws used against the common person.

Toronto Police rarely do anything to the average person who is a victim of a public assault, scam or armed robbery.

However, the Toronto Police work hard to go after people who post online content criticizing cops, public servants, teachers and politicians, especially if you criticize the LGBT movement.

People are getting angrier on the streets, lots of violence on the TTC.

A lot of confrontations in public. It's starting to feel like tension is in the air.

But all is great in the wealthy communities like Bridle Path, Lawrence Park and Royal York.

The millionaires and billionaires are having the time of their lives.

@Anon on July 24
The homeless guy is possibly more good-looking than the Karen lol

We need Batman, Spider-Man, Chisato Nishikigi, and Takina Inoue to deal with criminals in Toronto.

Back when rent was affordable homelessness was not such a huge prob. Between rent getting ridiculous and the tps being soooooo understaffed.....of course crime is up. If you think we have too many police then try reporting a crime......they take days to show up. They don;t even have time to hand out very many tickets for driving offences.


To the uber delivery guy that had his ebike stolen......good cuz there are way too many of you now and you all drive like idiots.....no lights.....running red lights and stop signs......Its like you think you are the only ones on the road.....TO those ppl doing the ordering for delivery......get off your fat A$$ and pry yourself away from your phone for long enough to cook or go get your own food.

Toronto isn't safe, metrics like this have been abused in the past, large numbers, to convince people that the large amount of crime won't happen to them. It will.

I think Covid-19 affected the safety nature of Toronto. The homelessness situation downtown is leading a lot of persons to crime, I read on www.adayincanada.com about the crime witnessed days back and its scary.

Toronto is garbage. I have lived here all my life. We are so far behind for a city with millions of people living in it. Homelessness everywhere, Construction everywhere, not clean, and recently have a terrible bout of cars being broken into & stolen all over the city. I live in a “safe” prestigious neighbourhood, but crime has been rising regardless. Shootings, stealing…… You are not safe anywhere in Toronto.

Toronto is overall pretty safe but the increase in youth related crime is worrying.

All these kids wanting to get internet famous has led to some awful things.

Far to many guns here. Need more police raids in high crime areas and making sure those who get arrested and put in jail, stay in jail and don’t just get put back into the streets a few months later.

The crime rate is a little high but Toronto is one of the most safest cities and relaxing cities in Canada and the world

So many boomers here thinking the world is ending.

Toronto is nowhere near what it used to be like, shootings and stabbings everyday, high robbery rate, lots of drug usage, ive seen people shooting up in the middle of the sidewalk and all the parks downtown are littered with needles and paraphernalia.

If you dont go looking for trouble youll likely be fine as long as you stay vigilant and away from bad areas. Its safer then some of the bigger us cities but nowhere near as safe the major cities in western europe.

I work as a courier in Toronto (Uber/Doordash/Skip), and yesterday April 23 between 9:30 pm and 10 pm, my Inmotion L9 was stolen at 60 John Street - Toronto.

I reported online to the police, but I am reaching out to every page on the internet to report the robbery.

The Inmotion L9 is a kind of brand new scooter, and the thief is going to need to buy a charger that is different from the others charges or try to sell the scooter online.

I can recognize my scooter, and I will keep this ad on till I find it.

So please, do not buy properties without a receipt. Not something like a scooter which was introduced to the market 4 months ago.

Every scooter has its own internal code.
If you download the Inmotion App the code of my scooter is L9-B108001F.

If you see something, please, reach out.

I am going to pay a reward of C$300 for having it back.

I saw many, but many times "homeless people" trying to steal expensive bicycles around downtown Toronto. There are an organized crime behind these crimes. Who is buying? Who is doing the logistics?

Toronto is a horrible city. Shootings in broad daylight. Needles everywhere downtown. Horribly expensive. People resort to awful things.

Toronto is a cake walk period. As one of the criminals who contributed to these statistics I can tell you I've never felt unsafe here. If you're a spineless coward Toronto is a perfect place to visit. It's an average big city so if you don't go looking for trouble you'll be absolutely fine. I've traveled in Europe, Africa and the US there are only 2 cities I've ever been where I felt genuinely unsafe - Gary, Indiana - pure F*&%KING gangland, the police escorted me out pretty sure just to make sure I didn't get car jacked. The second is Capetown had some problems during the day right downtown (nothing crazier than Toronto) but at night the city is side street after side street with no street lights and crowds of people doing whatever the F*&K they want in the dark. Having my girlfriend with me felt extremely unsafe. Never felt anything close to those feelings in european cities or Toronto even in *crack tower*, teasdale, tindle, river, cresent town, flemo, jane and finch etc the "bad" parts of Toronto are incomparable to an actual bad city. Anyone crying about how bad this place is should thank their lucky stars they've lived a sheltered enough life to be able to view this place as dangerous hahaa

Mehdi Amin, 58, was found dead inside his home Wednesday afternoon
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You're right!! Toronto is very safe!

great city and has been very safe in my experience, just avoid Brampton though.

Fair enough, I do apologise, but in 2019 though the homicide rate went straight back down though.

Since when did Toronto surpass NYC’s murder rate in 2018 lol. That is a straight up lie. The only city I heard that overtook NYC’s homicide rate in 2018 was London. Toronto is very safe except for the small pockets of hood areas but overall is incredibly safe.

I love Toronto. Only bad parts are some parts of Scarborough and Brampton. Other than that it’s a very vibrant city and very very safe.

Honestly stop lying, David and Jamall, you are the same person and your having to make more than one comment pretending your different people. If your gonna do that then we shouldn’t believe you, also those stats are false. Anyone with half a brain knows that

Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area is actually very safe and a lot safer compared to a lot of cities in the states and Europe. I would say avoid Brampton though. I hear there’s a lot of trouble in that area.

Those 4 comments are all liars and u can tell they are all the same person, if someone is pretending to be 4 different people, then why should we trust him? Just ask people in Toronto how they feel then ask people from London or Malmo. Toronto would be positive and Malmo and London would be negative. You clearly just hate Canada for some reason.

Sarah, your literally straight lying. Toronto homicide rate 3.5. London's worst homicide rate in the last decade is 1.5

Moved to here from London in England and I’m way happier here. It’s a lot safer too. Safer than New York, Chicago, London, Paris and obviously Detroit.
London homicide rate=2.3
Toronto=1.5

London Homicide rate 1.5
Toronto Homicide rate 3.5

London is much safer, Jayden

I live in Downtown Toronto. Since covid started, drug use has skyrocket. There are homes less encampments outside my home. Everything here is boarded up. People breaking into cars. It’s criminal but also extreme depravation as people are turning to drugs in increasing numbers. At the current pace I assume the downtown will collapse socially. These trends started in SAN Francisco about 10 years ago and we are rapidly catching up. Sad!