Crime in Toronto, Canada

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
CBC News · Posted: Oct 23, 2020 9:17 AM ET | Last Updated: October 23

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!

Grew up in Toronto and moved away in the 80.s for work to Northern Ontario.

Come back and visit at least twice a year.

Stay at Sheraton downtown. Catch a set at the Rex, then walk to Cameron house catch a set then walk to Grossmans catch a set (drink with every set of course) finish off in Kensington then walk back to Sheraton
along the side streets going east of Spadina and grab a sausage before bed.

Never had a problem (prob would not walk around queen and sherbourne at 3 AM though).

Great city and love the diversity.

401 and 407 is crazy driving the fast lane is essentially like the autobahn!

Last time there a few weeks ago I saw at least 4 incidences of people doing a u turn mid queen street (actaully a 3 point turn cause not enough room) horns horns and middle fingers all around.

Probably happens cause no one ever gets shot in a road rage incident (dont do that in New Orleans).

Just finshed a visit to NAWLINS.

300,000 people and WAY WAY more dangerous then Toronto.

A woman at red light on her bicycle was robbed of it at 9 AM at gunpoint in area generally consdiered "safe"

Just check out the news from NAWLINS this past weekend.

Great food and music though

Blessings

@Polish Nationalist Is Scum
The thing with Alexandre Bissonette is that he's living in the most white major Canadian city which is Quebec city, in which you couldn't even compare with a multicultural city like Toronto. I live in Montreal and there's very few immigrants that would settle outside of that city metropolitan area, so you can imagine the fear white Quebecers had on immigrants which is most likely prone to do things like Alexandre Bissonette did.

Gangs, gun violence and hate crimes are increasing in Toronto. This is only a few of the knife crimes that happen in Toronto:
https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/01/man-stabbed-face-outside-toronto-eaton-centre/

Certain parts of Toronto are gangster paradises, but the Alt-Right Polish nationalist lives in their own enclaves and treat outsiders with contempt, so the gangs don't go there. The gangs terrorize those in the low-income communities and they don't live in the suburbs, where it's safer.

SO many boomers thinking that the world is ending lol.

I too am looking elsewhere to escape Toronto. The city I used to love is a garbage dump, especially Scarborough. Drugs, imbeciles with guns, horrific drivers, signs in every language but English....the list goes on. Justa Truedolt has sold us out and we are now a cesspool, not a melting pot. The recent firing of Don Cherry, Canada's number one defender is the litmus test to see how horribly we natural Canadians are being treated, white brown or black...we all suffer. Immigrants come here, get a huge cheque, well above pensioner's income, free housing, food, etc. They have no regard for Canadian ways and show this with their driving and rudeness in stores. Liberals are a cancer and must be stopped. They have sold us out with mass immigration. Now I am to join my fellow Torontonians and get far away from this garbage dump. Don Cherry was right!

I'm a born and raised Torontoinian. I used to defend my city, but now I'm beginning to feel uncomfortable in my own city. The homeless are violent and allowed to take over whole sidewalks in the heart of the downtown. Our police have had tools they used to combat violent criminals through carding removed. And the cops are generally afraid of being labeled a racist so they avoid taking proactive measures in the black communities of the city. Which is where most of our gun crime is. Since it's become politically unfavorable to lock up and treat people who are clearly mentally ill. Because doing so is now seen as discrimination.
Safe injection sites have created enclaves of druggies using in the open. And police are powerless to stop them. Again it's seen as discrimination to police people on a morality level. Where it used to be frowned upon and discouraged to engage in anti social behaviour it's now accepted and encouraged. Someone else brought up the change in our immigration policies in the 70's and yes this was a huge contributer to there issues. We no longer seek out Europeans to move here we encourage poor, poorly educated and offten violent people from caribian nations and Africa to move here. They create ghettos, go in welfare, join gangs and shoot people.

It’s become a Horrible, divisive, intolerant city. Your not safe anywhere.

I live in Scarborough (have my whole life.
I’m almost 30 and I’ve been to more funerals than weddings.
I’m annoyed living here more than I am scared but I am scared for my children. I would never recommend raising a family here.
Biggest problems
1) Panhandling. - Within the past 3 years the amount of people approaching you asking for money has become ridiculous. These people aren’t even homeless. They moved all the people from Regent Park to Morningside and Lawrence. These people literally try and open your car door and spit on your windshield.

2) Druggies and Mental Illness- People shoot up in the plaza and the stairwells. Usually the two go hand in hand and are allowed to just run around the city barraging people.

3) Poverty - Everyone is poor/ struggling and so they’re all in a bad mood.

4) Stabbings and shootings - In my experience MOST of these happen after hours at bars and such. There is no regulation and just about anyone can become in possession.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rohinie-bisesar-shoppers-stabbing-verdict-1.4893553

Toronto is a great place, if you ignore the fact that this is where people can stop taking meds and doing what the voices tell them.

Raptors game = shooting during celebration Parade= shooting Yonge Dundas= spitting people with knives

during the day safe= at night, AVOID!

Downtown Toronto has become very scary at night. Drugs everywhere now. I have lived in the downtown core since 1985. Today it is the worst it’s ever been. You cannot walk around anytime between 4pm and 5am.

I really do not know why is the reviews of Toronto and the people who have lived there has been so intense. This year Toronto has only had 29 homicides which is very low compared to only last year because of gun violence attacks which can happen anywhere. Economist Magazine Ranks Toronto as the 7th most livable city in the world. Youth and overall everyone always have fun downtown please change the Moderate rate to low when it comes to safety at night. In a sense crime and brutal things are everywhere.

Toronto is becoming more violent by the day. So so sad my beloved home. I feel it’s ruined.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/raptors-rally-shooting-1.5178886

Plain daylight, during a celebration parade. That says it all, and these statistics should be revised.

Gangs have been increasing through the years. I have lived in Toronto for all my life. Things have not changed since I lived here. Always gang bangers and violence

You are right Tom, we need hope, but instead they threw us dope.
Toronto is not the same city I saw ten years ago. There are more racial insults, angry people, and actual violence. The other day there was a gang beating up another in a streetcar near King and Bathurst, during daylight. The TTC guy locked himself up and could not care about his passengers any less.
The cops were fashionably late, and they only got one guy.
Awful city, no hope with the current rich and entitled administration at a city level, and total Provincial nightmare.

I was born and raised in Toronto.. 50 years now and have seen my share of crime.. Guns from the US is the big problem, stolen guns from gun owners etc. I saw guns over 30 years ago being smuggled in . Wake up police and government officials.. The prevalence of guns has grown over the years.. Police are doing their best to stop it but we need an outright ban of guns.. who cares if you like to shoot.. crap ..pick up a bow and arrow it takes more skill.. Guns crimes are for cowards !!! bottom line.. they don’t have the mental toughness or physical toughness to fix it with their mind or body.. just little kids inside an adult body that’s who is shooting ... kids ...that weigh 120 pounds.. no real courage to work everyday and really be a man.. just little boys with real guns instead of plastic toy ones.. losers!! Toronto is safe just don’t get involved with drug dealing or prostitution and you will be fine!!! It is safe.. by the way people in the bad neighbourhoods deserve the crimes they get. They are too cowardly to report it to police.. mothers and fathers enabling their little brat children to commit crimes and then saying “I didn’t know, he was such a good boy”” ..they knew.. unless you are blind .. you knew!!

3 years ago at yonge and dundas, someone opened fire at a woman with a shotgun. I live in the capital of ontario and the crime problem is getting worse. Someone opend fire with a revolver in yorkdale mall and the police shut it down. Thankfully, no-one was injured or eliminated.

You have to lock everything down in Toronto. People steal everything. Violence amongst kids have grown. Drug use has grown. Homelessness has grown. Desperation has grown. I encounter people living in their cars because they have no stable housing. Terror and violence fears have grown.

We need Hope.

As of today Toronto has a higher per capita murder rate than New York City. We're finally beat them in something!

A security guard got pepper sprayed at Yonge and Bloor. No clue if the person who pepper sprayed the guard got arrested, Stay particularity vigilant around Yonge and Dundas, Wellseley, and Bloor.

I live in Toronto and I can tell you that there is alot of gang violence and things of that sort outside of the downtown area. Areas like Jane strip, Eglinton west, Dixon, etobicoke as some examples are known to have a lot of gang violence.

Everywhere has crime and some years better than others. If we had ponies wandering the streets and balloons tied to every post maybe it can calm people and deter them from an a violent thought.

Toronto is safe and ethnic diverse city. Racist people needs to stop bad talking about this city.

I was visiting and yeah
I was downtown (so beautiful)

Toronto is a safe and shiny place on most parts

The thing is theres slot of soliciting

Wow, there's some very good info and some worthless BS in these comments!

I can't say I care about how people "feel." If you "feel" safe in an American ghetto and you don't "feel" safe in Toronto, that's your problem. I prefer facts. In 2016, as for the last couple decades, Toronto was the second safest city with at least a million people in all of North America, after Montreal. Compared to all other *Canadian* cities down to a couple hundred thousand residents, Toronto is a bit safer than average. There's less violent crime than in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Regina, Saskatoon, and Saint John, but it's more dangerous than Ottawa, Quebec, and Montreal. The stats are freely available for anyone who cares to look.

Comparing internationally is a bit trickier due to differing definitions of crimes, but one crime we can agree about is homicide. Dead bodies can't be classified away. By that measure, the Toronto metro area is safer than all but two of the 113 American metro areas with at least a half million residents. Only ultra-Mormon Provo, Utah and ultra-boring Portland, Maine have fewer dead bodies per capita. Toronto is more than ten times bigger than either of those, too.

There are plenty of Canadian racists saying things like "the violent brown people are stealing all our social services." Obviously, nothing true will affect their beliefs, as they really aren't willing and/or able to process information about the world logically. For the benefit of the rest of the readers, though, the fact is that the overall violent crime rate of the "visible minority" (i.e., brown-skinned) population of the Greater Toronto Area is MUCH lower than it is for whites. That's part of why Toronto is safer than the "whiter" cities listed above. Does that mean you should avoid white areas of Toronto? No, that would be stupid, because they're awfully safe, too.

I've focused on violent crime here since getting shot is a lot scarier to me than getting robbed. Toronto definitely has less-impressive but still well below average rates of most other kinds of criminal behavior. Again, all the data is there for you to check out from the appropriate authorities if you care to look.

I was born and raised in Toronto. I have never considered crime a problem. If you listen to the media you have a completely inaccurate picture. They report on the worst neighbourhoods in the city where thugs kill each other because they can't think of anything else to do. i.e Jane and Finch area.

My wife and I live downtown. There is no issue with guns, assaults, etc at all. Ultimately you think before you act. If you want to hang out at clubs and bars every night with drunks you will find lots of crime. Otherwise Toronto is a very exciting and liveable city.

For those that don't believe me, think about this. Do you really think house price are soaring because crime is out of control or because it is a great place to live?