Hate crimes in Toronto jumped 51 per cent

Hate crimes in Toronto jumped 51 per cent

Hate crime complaints and arrests in Toronto jumped sharply last year, with Jewish and Black people the most common targets, according to an annual police report released last Thursday. The report cites the COVID-19 pandemic first reported in Wuhan, China, and the police murder of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, as contributing to […]

Hate crimes on the rise in Toronto

Hate crimes on the rise in Toronto

Hate crimes in Toronto continue to rise. The Toronto Police, in its annual statistical report,  released last week, notes that in 2017, there was an increase in the total number of hate crime occurrences reported to the service. The report said that in comparison to 2016, the number of reported occurrences [in 2017] increased from […]