Mayor of Toronto asks for help from Ontario, in Ottawa, after receiving 10 injunctions in five days

The Mayor announces that he will urge the province to tighten bail guidelines for some people arrested with firearms and will ask Ottawa to quickly pay Toronto $ 328 million in funding antigang promised

At least 10 people were injured in Toronto in the past five days – a wave that Tory and Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders described as "90% gangs"

. On Tuesday, Tory said he was not referring to the victims, but to the people who pulled the trigger.

Among the shootings of recent years, the mayor said that the police had told him: "It's a combination of reprisal strikes, where one band is doing something and another gang is fighting back." is a combination of territorial wars that they have on drugs and other kinds of things like that. "

Around 8pm. On Saturday, three people were shot dead in the downtown entertainment district. Two men – Jahvante Smart, 21, a rapper known as Smoke Dawg, and Ernest Modekwe, 28, both of Toronto – were killed.

On Sunday, at approximately 10:30 pm, shots were fired in the Kensington Market area. Four people were injured and taken to the hospital.

Tuesday, a man was shot dead in the streets of King and Portland at 2:45

Mr. Tory said he and Chief Saunders discussed some short-term measures, such as more security cameras, more resources, and accelerated reforms to divert non-emergency calls from uniformed police.

Mike McCormack, president of He also said that reforms to police stops known as routine checks or "carding" – a practice found to disproportionately target people of color, but that many 39, officers said

Peel Region police chief, Jennifer Evans, also accused the end of routine checks of the increase in violence

. Tory said Tuesday that any notion that a simple solution can be found to armed violence is false.

"I saw the president of the police union claim that the whole answer to this question is to hire more police officers.Other people suggest that the whole answer is based on the return of patents," he said. Mr. Tory said, "I think anyone who suggests to the people of Toronto that they have the full answer in a little slogan or in a small policy proposal is misleading the people of Toronto and gives them false hope. is a very complicated question. "

Police spokesman Mark Pugash also said that anyone offering a" simple diagnosis "should be treated with" a lot of skepticism. "Tory said his office is making an inventory of all programs funded by the three governments, aimed at reducing gang violence or helping at-risk youth, to determine if funds have been spent for Successful programs are often funded for only three to four years.

He told reporters that the federal government recently allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to fight the gangs, but that the province and the city had to apply for them. Last November, Mr. Goodale announced new funding of $ 328 million over five years as part of efforts to reduce gun crime across Canada. "Obviously, when people do not feel safe, when they think that random attacks can kill innocent people and hurt them badly, they are just walking in the street." Mr. Tale and Chief Saunders suggest that offenders are released on bail too quickly, and return to the same direction criminal networks

Tory said that among the reforms he and the police hope that the province will follow stricter guidelines that would require Crown attorneys to challenge bail for anyone who is already on bail and taken with a firearm and for anyone already convicted of a crime.

Mr. Tory testified that the police complained that the suspects gun crimes are soon back on the street.