The mayor-elect is set to take office on Wednesday.
, some Torontonians have worried that a left-leaning mayor would reduce police power. Chow, however, didn’t have plans to cut the police budget in her election plan., she said on the campaign trail that she wanted to expand Toronto’s community crisis response teams citywide and to shorten 911 call wait times.
One expert, Anthony Doob, professor emeritus of criminology at the University of Toronto, previously told the Star that these ideas Another, Erick Laming, an assistant professor of criminology at Trent University, said that although she committed to tackling these issues, she wasn’t making “any hard promises” about what she would do.a years-long decline in violent crimeWhile there are many ways to quantify crime, homicide rates have been consistently lower than the most recent peak in 2018, a year also notable for the Yonge Street van attack, where 10 people were killed.
Toronto is still “a very safe city,” Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, associate professor of sociology at the University of Toronto who specializes in race and justice issues, previously told the Star.
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