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Crime in Toronto has been low in comparison to other major cities. In 2024, a ranking of 60 large cities by The Economist ranked Toronto as the 6th safest major city in the world, and the safest major city in North America. [ 1 ] In the same year, CEOWORLD magazine, which includes some major medium-sized cities, ranked Toronto as the 160th ...
Rizzuto crime family. The Commisso 'ndrina (Italian: [komˈmisso, ˈkɔmmisso]) is a powerful clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organization in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina is based in Siderno, but also has a branch in the Greater Toronto Area in Canada as part of the Siderno Group. The Commisso clan is involved in ...
Mariam Debra Peters (1958/1959 – November 11, 1975) was a Canadian schoolgirl who was murdered at St. Patrick station on Line 1 Yonge–University in 1975. Her unsolved murder prompted safety reforms by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) and led to alterations in the design of the Line 1 stations St. Patrick, Queen's Park and Museum.
Danzig Street shooting. The Danzig Street shooting, or Danzig shooting, was a gang-related shooting that occurred on the evening of 16 July 2012 at a block party on Danzig Street in the West Hill neighbourhood of Toronto, Canada. Rival gang members Folorunso Owusu, 17, and Nahom Tsegazab, 19, along with an unidentified third gunman, opened fire ...
2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides. Between 2010 and 2017, a total of eight men disappeared from the neighbourhood of Church and Wellesley, the LGBTQ village of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The investigation into the disappearances, taken up by two successive police task forces, eventually led to Bruce McArthur, a 66-year-old self-employed ...
Buffalo crime family. Conviction (s) Extortion (1968) Criminal penalty. 2 years' imprisonment (1968) Paul "The Fox" Volpe (Italian: [ˈvolpe]; 31 January 1927 – 13 November 1983) was an Italian-Canadian mobster and Toronto -based member of the Buffalo crime family.
The emergency task force is the tactical unit of the Toronto Police Service. It is mandated to deal with high-risk situations like gun calls, hostage takings, barricaded persons, emotionally disturbed persons, high-risk arrests and warrant services, and protection details. The unit was created in 1965.
Rizzuto crime family. The Rizzuto crime family (Italian: [ritˈtsuːto]) is an Italian-Canadian organized crime family based in Montreal, Quebec, whose activity covers most of southern Quebec and Ontario. [4] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States considers the family a faction of the Bonanno crime family of New York ...