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This statement about the TPSB is revealing. Look how captured the Board is -- the cops feel empowered to bully their bosses the second they stop being unconditional cheerleaders. This is the voice of someone who thinks the councillors work for them.
For months our members have worked tirelessly to maintain public safety at hundreds of demonstrations of various sizes.
At every event, our members have valued, respected, and upheld everyone’s Charter rights.
But these rights are not unlimited.
When those in attendance have broken the law, our members have been patient and professional, always opting to deescalate and provide warnings at every opportunity, often to the point of criticism and ridicule from others.
In return, officers have been threatened with injury or death. Last weekend, a woman threw horse feces at our officers, and another woman used a flagpole to spear at others.
A police officer was targeted with verbal attacks, and we have heard other female officers express concerns they are being targeted at these events in ways their male colleagues are not. Another officer has been targeted on social media by the same community he proudly represents.
Mayor Chow has been silent and six local councillors – including two members of the Toronto Police Services Board – have refused to condemn the attacks against our members.
Our members deserve support from the Mayor and Council, especially Councillors Amber Morley and Lily Cheng. As members of the TPSB they are briefed regularly on the status of protest activity and the increasing volatility facing our communities and officers.
As the Association representing more than 8,000 uniform and civilian members of the Toronto Police Service, we want to know:
Will Mayor Chow condemn the message sent by these councillors and come out publicly in support of our members? Will Councillors Morley and Cheng recuse themselves from the police services board and, if not, will Mayor Chow remove them?
The public and our members deserve to know where they stand.
Drivers are the single biggest threat to our safety, and yet even with 51 Division half a block away, the cops could do nothing to protect us from this deadly weapon wielded on a busy sidewalk in broad daylight.
Maybe if we gave them more money
COLLISION:
King St E & Parliament St
9am
- reports of a multi-vehicle collision
- one vehicle went into a building
- broken glass in the area
- police are o/s
- unknown injuries
- delays in the area
- consider alternate routes
#GO390075
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Imagine if every city department had a four-million-dollar comms budget that they used to lobby the public for more money
Why should we trust you to handle complex emergency situations when you can't even handle twitter replies
Did you know Toronto has only 37 more police officers than in 1999, despite population growth of more than 600,000 and a 35% increase in emergency calls.
#SupportYourTPS
In the most simple terms: if someone outside is concerned about fire safety, their options are 1) risk a fire anyway, or 2) freeze while being repeatedly denied space in shelters. This is a basic fact.
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This party insists on appeasing people who will never give them the time of day. Those people are pointing and laughing at them right now, not joining the email list.
History will remember @SarahJama_'s courage. The party should consider themselves lucky if they get forgotten.
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Imagine telling these two kids and their mom that they have to serve a one-month sentence on the street now or they'll never qualify for this help.
Means-tested policy like this that sounds fine in some bureaucrat's office becomes capricious and punitive in the real world.
The family has two options:
- Be homeless another month to meet that criteria, and then try to apply through a referral partner (if they're not in a shelter, we don't know who that'll be); OR
- take this unit and live without COHB, on $347/month
What would you do?
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Councillor Moise moved to tears about the plight of refugees globally as he speaks on this, as if he hasn't spent the entire term claiming that people seeking shelter are all from out of town and therefore should be someone else's problem
Council votes 26-0 to ADOPT Chow’s motion on the shelter refugee crisis. It requests the city to immediately open at least 150 shelter beds for refugees, and make plans to add 100 more. secure.toronto.ca/council/ag…
I too find this frustrating
ALT Pictured: a police officer standing on a subway platform. Original caption: "Over 100 riders were turned away after 1-hour of monitoring. Do you know what part is frustrating? They have a valid Presto card or money to pay. They choose not to pay & argue with Police & TTC staff. Fair Evasion penalty of $425. Pay your ride as others do. #TTC" New caption: "Over 100 riders were turned away after 1-hour of monitoring. Do you know what part is frustrating? They have a valid *complaint about the mayor's priorities. Why is the city cutting TTC service to pay cops overtime?*"
Over 100 riders were turned away after 1-hour of monitoring.
Do you know what part is frustrating? They have a valid Presto card or money to pay. They choose not to pay & argue with Police & TTC staff.
Fair Evasion penalty of $425.
Pay your ride as others do. #TTC
Fixed that for you
ALT Photo of a Toronto Police officer on transit. The original caption "Our officers are making referrals for shelter, food and mental health services during their patrols on the TTC." has "making referrals" replaced by "taking your budget"
Tory was asked for facts on this, and admitted it was just politics.
For yesterday's first day of Christmas, Toronto got its first council meeting under minority rule. For the next 11 days, a tribute to John Tory's Toronto:
Dear @JohnTory,
I watched, appalled, as you made the choice yesterday and again today to subvert human rights instead of championing them.
Defund the police [college]
I asked every health unit with hot spots what is happening with essential worker/workplace vaccinations.
Here's what I was told:
thestar.com/news/gta/2021/04…
