Resources
All City of Toronto budget notes: Budget Documents – City of Toronto
Toronto Police Accountability Coalition
(TPAC’s bulletins are full of information worth reading)
Keeping Communities Safe - but without cops
Rethinking Community Safety: A Step Forward for Toronto
Increased spending on policing does not lead to reduced crime
Police only solve 2% of major crimes
Expanding the Policing and Prison Industrial Complex
How Defunding Would Work in Practice
Police misconduct and toxic cop culture (‘hard chargers’)
Brute Force: Discrimination, harassment and abuse inside the Toronto Police Service
Cars/drivers are Toronto’s biggest threat to safety, yet:
Toronto police need to spend more time enforcing traffic laws
The Toronto Police Service has never charged fewer drivers with a criminal offence, new data shows
Ongoing pattern of Violating People’s Rights
600 Cases of Police Violating Fundamental Rights When No One is Tracking
Proposed class-action lawsuit takes aim at Toronto Police Services Board over carding
On Property Taxes
“I’m a fiscal conservative and I support raising Toronto’s property taxes”