Toronto police have won a fight with city hall for a budget increase, but councillors and experts say that funding now comes with heightened expectations that they’ll lower response times to emergency calls in the next 12 months.
Toronto police say they need an extra $20 million this year or the service will suffer. A coalition of nine advocacy groups is heading to city hall this morning to tell councillors more police spending doesn't equal more safety.
Firouzeh Zarabi-Majd always wanted to be a cop, and she loved the job. Even when her fellow officers started harassing her, she said nothing at first. That’s the code you don’t go public, no matter what. But eventually she had to speak up, and it cost her everything
The Toronto Police Services Board has voted unanimously in favour of a 1.7 per cent increase in the police's net operating budget next year to bring their funding to nearly $1.2 billion an increase of $20 million from the 2023 budget.