Town houses on Empringham
On a day when the new Police Chief, Mark Saunders, met with members of the African Canadian Summit there was a sniper-type shooting in the Malvern neighborhood of Scarborough. Call it life in the Big City. A boy, 15, who is being stone cold silent with the cops about who shot him was hit in a leg. Police are looking for suspects in the drive-by gun play. It happened near some town houses on Empringham Drive. The shooters didn’t even bother to get out their black car. It is assumed they know the injured youth. Back at the African Summit, Chief Saunders was assailed for saying that the elimination of the practice of carding is not the answer to safer streets and in fact, said the chief, it would lead to more crime. These remarks set fire to a tinderbox of anger about racism and human rights at the Summit. As is frequently the case, there was no reportage today about whether carding as it practiced by the Toronto Police actually works, although the chief seems to think that it does.
