On Jan. 26, at approximately 12:36 a.m. Toronto Police Services (TPS) responded to a call for a “wounding” near Paul Martel Park located on Madison Avenue just north of Bloor. This wounding would later become a homicide, Toronto’s first homicide of 2025. Darapheakdey “Daral” Sovann, 27, was found Sunday morning with life threatening injuries. First […]
CHATTER: Toronto’s first homicide of 2025 occurs in the Annex (Feb. 2025)
February 21st, 2025 · Comments Off on CHATTER: Toronto’s first homicide of 2025 occurs in the Annex (Feb. 2025)
CHATTER: Man wanted for aggravated assault (Aug. 2022)
August 17th, 2022 · Comments Off on CHATTER: Man wanted for aggravated assault (Aug. 2022)
The suspect is described as in his late 30s, approximately 6’, medium to muscular build, balding, wearing a black t-shirt, blue jeans, black backpack, walking with a white and brown dog.
NEWS: First Black woman appointed superintendent (Feb. 2021)
March 5th, 2021 · Comments Off on NEWS: First Black woman appointed superintendent (Feb. 2021)
Stacy Clarke, the second-in-command at Toronto Police Service (TPS) 14 Division has been appointed superintendent, a rank never before held at TPS by a Black female officer.
CHATTER: Police seek help in identifying robbery suspect (Jan. 2020)
January 31st, 2020 · Comments Off on CHATTER: Police seek help in identifying robbery suspect (Jan. 2020)
The Toronto Police Service has released new images of a man involved in a robbery that took place in the Annex area last month and is seeking help from the public to identify him. According to police, the incident occurred on October 14 at around 5:30 p.m., when an 87-year-old woman was walking on Brunswick […]
EDITORIAL: Lessons to be learned from Excessive Force (Spring 2018)
May 1st, 2018 · 1 Comment
Sometimes a mea culpa comes in the form of a memoir. Such is the case with Alok Mukherjee, who was the chair of the Toronto Services Board from 2005 to 2015, a period that included the G20 economic summit in June 2010 in Toronto. In Excessive Force, published last month, Mukherjee considers how police, particularly […]
EDITORIAL (Nov. 2017): Student safety suffers as trustees cave
November 24th, 2017 · 1 Comment
Toronto District School Board (TDSB) trustees are poised to accept a staff recommendation to permanently discontinue its 10-year relationship with the Toronto Police Service (TPS). Instituted after 15-year-old Jordan Manners was shot and killed in a stairwell at C. W. Jeffreys Collegiate Institute, the School Resource Officer (SRO) program was developed after a report on […]
CHATTER (FALL 2017): Violent crime in 14 Division
October 12th, 2017 · Comments Off on CHATTER (FALL 2017): Violent crime in 14 Division
The Toronto Police Service (TPS) is investigating three high-profile cases of aggravated assault that occurred in 14 Division within a few days of each other in early September. On September 1 an 18-year-old man left a bar in the Bathurst and College streets area with a group of friends around 1 a.m. He was confronted […]
EDITORIAL (AUGUST 2017): Don’t sacrifice safety for political gain
September 13th, 2017 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL (AUGUST 2017): Don’t sacrifice safety for political gain
The deeply divisive debate on whether or not the Toronto Police Service (TPS) should continue the School Resource Officer (SRO) program reveals fault lines among those responsible for ensuring that secondary education be conducted in a safe, supportive environment. Under the program, thirty-six police officers are assigned to work in Toronto’s public and Catholic high […]
CHATTER (JULY 2017): Police seek assistance in sexual assault case
August 1st, 2017 · Comments Off on CHATTER (JULY 2017): Police seek assistance in sexual assault case
The Toronto Police Service’s (TPS) 14 Division is investigating a sexual assault at Bloor Street West and Robert Street. On July 24, slightly before 6 a.m., a 25-year-old woman was reportedly approached from behind and assaulted by a man in his late-twenties to mid-thirties. The suspect then fled eastward. The man is described as 5 […]
POLICE BLOTTER (SEPTEMBER 2016): Police investigate College Street and Ossington Avenue sexual assault
September 15th, 2016 · Comments Off on POLICE BLOTTER (SEPTEMBER 2016): Police investigate College Street and Ossington Avenue sexual assault
By Summer Reid The Toronto Police Service (TPS) has requested the public’s assistance in investigating a sexual assault that occurred on Sept. 5. At approximately 3:30 a.m., a man sexually assaulted a woman after entering her home in the College Street and Ossington Avenue area. Last seen walking northbound on Ossington Avenue towards College Street, […]
CHATTER (AUGUST 2016): Self-described former gang member shot at Christie Pits
August 26th, 2016 · Comments Off on CHATTER (AUGUST 2016): Self-described former gang member shot at Christie Pits
The Toronto Police Service is requesting assistance with a shooting investigation in the Bloor Street West and Christie Street area. On July 30 at approximately 9:00 a.m., a man shot two people during a fitness class in Christie Pits. One victim, who was nearby when the shooting occurred, was hit in the foot by a […]
EDITORIAL (AUGUST 2016): “An egregious breach of trust”
August 26th, 2016 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL (AUGUST 2016): “An egregious breach of trust”
Six years in a federal penitentiary. Given the judicial constraints in this case, Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Then has delivered a fair sentence to Constable James Forcillo of the Toronto Police Service for the attempted murder of Sammy Yatim on a Toronto streetcar three years ago. A jury had previously found Forcillo not guilty […]