I haven't seen this in the news yet, but there was another murder yesterday evening in Sav la Mar. Guy stepped out of his car at a convenience store, was gunned down, and his car stolen. The victim was a Jamaican who had gone to "foreign" to Toronto but was back for a 2-week visit home. He was on the 2nd day of his visit when he was gunned down.

The talk in this thread seems to be mostly about how the SOE affects your nightlife. But as someone who has moved here part-time my concern is more about actual safety. It could have been me! I happened to also be on the 2nd day of arriving back here to my Jamaican home and I was also out in my car doing errands in Sav that day. i know the family of the victim. So it hits close to home.

I hope they get the violence under control, but to be honest the whole SOE thing looks to me more like a show than an actual attempt to solve it. I mean, soldiers with machine guns stopping and searching cars, is that a good investment of limited funds? What does that do? How is that stopping murders like this? Do they think the criminal is stupid enough to drive his stolen car through one of those checkpoints? Seems like an investment in basic police and detective capabilities would be better spent money.