Crime in Toronto, Canada

I was born and raised in Toronto for almost 40 years and can say I'm glad I moved out of that place. I lived in the suburbs and worked downtown and what I disliked the most is how rude people can be and as a female had to be often on guard. To me it's become a hostile place to live and have seen people get held up by knife point in broad daylight in the Yonge/Bloor area. Even seen fights in broad daylight eating at a restaurant. It's become a cold place to live where people are angry and have no time and you got to love the road rage on the 401 (highway).

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!!

To Anonymous: how many people in London have been drenched with water when the weather was -10C? How about set on fire? According to our Globe and Mail, "Statistics Canada does not track murders, assaults and sexual assaults committed against homeless people. But people who live on the street and their advocates say they happen frequently."
Everyday I hear of beatings, stabbings, assaults, and cars being stolen. Just because Toronto does not keep tabs on it, it does not mean it does not happen. Not only this, but I have actually seen people getting glassed on plain daylight, ran-over, and beaten up. Even though I or someone else reported it to the police, they looked the other way. Sorry to pop your bubble mate.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/from-burnings-to-beatings-homeless-people-face-violence-on-the-streets/article24128681/

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.

I personally have never been to Toronto, but everything I have heard about it has been nothing but good. I'm planning on moving there within the next year.

Toronto is one of the safest city in North America. Toronto isn't the safest city compare to Hong Kong, Taipei, and Tokyo Japan. But it's more diverse and less crowded than most Asian cities.

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?

People make bad choices but it's usually because of stress and that stress comes from family problems or money problems. If the government could lower the taxes and/or give us more money for work maybe there would be less crimes.

wow so not impressed by the people who have love ins with the city and Canada when it comes to corruption. There is a problem with corruption, Mainly the Police who have their own laws and cover up for each other when something goes wrong. They are also master liers when in court.

In literally the last three years there has been a shift in the safety of this city that I can not even type down into words. It has happened so fast and with little to no explanation but Toronto has transformed into an unsafe city (yes it really is) where people are thinking twice about going out after dark.

I have never seen crime so high in Toronto until the last couple years. Unreal Now.

Torontonians justify their residence in Toronto, possibly their residence in Canada, by repeating how integrated it is, how safe it is etc. Well this is simply not true. White flight from areas such as Scarborough has been going on for years. Scarborough, Keele/Finch, downtown are all well known areas of violence and drugs. Jamaicans are largely responsible, although Indians and Pakistan is, Africans and various other migrants are behind much of the crime. Can you imagine going to Jamaica and advertising and politicians supporting the idea of all white schools so the student could do better? Of course, it doesn't really matter, employers and Universities will quickly recognize the value of High School diplomas that were handed out because the student is black, not bright. Single parent families and povery are the bain of the black community. For black, read mostly Jamaicans.

Toronto is safe. Homocide rate is 2.0 per 100000. Compare that to Detroit's 35, Baltimore's 29, Chicago's 14, Boston's 9. New Orleans with its 65 is in class of its own. I have lived in Toronto for 30 years now and I would never,ever move to the suburbs. I work in the suburbs and I cannot fathom how people can live there without being forced to do so at a gunpoint. I have never been robbed, my home was never broken into. As a youth I used to live Ina supposed high crime,high drug area and yet nothing ever happened to me. You have to be really stupid to find trouble in Toronto.

Toronto is on the map and the whole reputation is changing. The 6 is hot right now and the thing right now is to be violent and claim stuff. I mean we got retards trying to claim subway stops. Toronto has always had a lot of drugs and I mean A LOT but now it's also adopting a practice of violence as you can tell from the 2nd first week of 2016 or sometime around then when there were multiple shootings/ stabbings every day.

Toronto is a beautiful face with beautiful people of all races and backgrounds. It what makes us inclusive and caring toward one another. It's sad to see the bigoted comments below, but happy to see some of those people have left. I'm white, my partner is Asian, we have lived downtown and have never had an issue. Visit Toronto but be as careful as you would anywhere else. :)

Burt is a liar, a communist and a traitor. He lies when he says immigration has improved the economy, instead of massively overburdening social services, transportation, education and the health care system at the expense of taxpayers while creating a dangerously unstable property bubble as it has actually done. He lies when he claims crime in Toronto was just as high before the non-European immigrants arrived as after. He lies when slanders James for telling the obvious truth about what has happened to Toronto. A narcissistic sociopath with morals and ethics lower than any animal, Burt is an excellent example of everything wrong with Toronto, as it is worthless, lying cretins like him who have played an instrumental role in destroying a once fine city and turning it into the filthy, dangerous cesspit of scum and depravity it is today. It must really burn Burt up to see that nationalism and patriotism are on the rise from Russia to France to the USA, and that degenerate globalist trash like him are on the wrong side of history and destined to soon receive their just reward for all the evil they have done and continue to do.

Do not go into any co-op complexes or buildings. The people there are drug-addicted criminals. Our neighbour was robbed of three cigarette packets and then the suspect slept with his wife. Most people are mentally insane in some neighbourhoods and will attack you like wolves if you look at them. Hell to Toronto.

I lived in Toronto from 1960 thru 2006. In the early years, it was a pretty safe city. Took the bus into Toronto in the late 60s and 70s with friends to movies, CNE etc. no problems. Then the Jamaicans started arriving. The buses from Scarborough became threatening at night, downtown felt uncomfortable, especially in the 80s when escorting my girlfriend and in the 90s my wife. Scarborough also became uncomfortable for the same reason, the same people. However, immigration is a problem around the world, and Jamaicans, Africans and Asians seem to have migrated to the Western societies and brought with them crime, unemployment (well Jamaicans don't do well at school) and third world birthrates. Reading about Norway, Sweden, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Australia etc. it is obvious that wherever this scum go, problems soon follow.