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McCormack: Younger generation of criminals has willingness to use guns

Posted By: Justine Lewkowicz · 7/30/2012 12:20:00 PM

Police are concerned about the amount of guns on the streets of Toronto and the changing gang mentality, according to Toronto Police Association president Mike McCormack.

McCormack joined Jerry Agar on Newstalk 1010 for two hours Monday.

He says things have changed since he started policing. Twenty five years ago, recovering firearms off the street was a rare occurance.

"Now, guys are bringing in AK47s, TEC-9s, all kinds of stuff, and it's just another day at the office," McCormack says.

He says the attitude of young criminals has changed. They have a willingness to use their weapons.

"This younger generation, instead of going to fists and boots to sort of resolve their issues, these kids are pulling out guns and they just don't care," McCormack says.

McCormack says part of the solution is having more officers on the streets, becoming a part of the community.

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  1. proton posted on 07/30/2012 01:33 PM
    since adam vaughan is so brilliant with his ideas i think he should be tasked with going around to all the gangbangers, chastising them for not registering their handguns, then telling them they have to drive outside of Toronto to buy their bullets
  2. Richard Collins posted on 07/30/2012 03:15 PM
    Allow our police to execute individuals caught with illegal firearms. Every dead gangbanger is one less gangbanger.
  3. EdwardM_8180 posted on 07/30/2012 05:27 PM
    Richard Collins

    Never have an illusion that Police does not know who is a gang banger, they know most of them and by name. When you go to TCHC with a Police Officer they know them and most times where they live. The danger in this discussion is that Police never arrest them let alone question them. Why? You ask them. Now having stated that let me state too that Police found a young kid I know, black and he was coming from school with his back pack, he had done absolutely nothing but Police stopped him and asked him all questions they wanted, he responded to all questions they had. They asked him to open his back pack, which they did not have a right to do, but he opened it any ways. They checked the bag and searched him, for he was trained to obey to Police Officers. So this is a kid that has been brought up to forget all rights and simply agree to be abused for he is black and he is going to lose any ways, so go ahead never give a Police Officer a headache when he asks you for anything just do it. And apparently that is how many of them are trained, only that society judges all black kids to be as Husbands. After he was searched thoroughly, the officer went back to his car and threw all his details into the system, and this kid was a good kid only going to school and doing what he is supposed to do. The Police Officer comes back and his next question was “So how come you do not have a criminal record? ” What was this kid supposed to respond? He was in high school came home crying and he left the country, he just could not stand the discrimination of Police against black youths. He is studying in a country out of Canada. The danger we have in society today is that such issues can never be raised publicly when we talk to Police Officers, in fact this very issue was raised this morning to the call taker of CFRB when McCormack was on the program, so that he addresses it and the call taker did not hand it over for it was a bad issue to be raised. As we parents are fighting hard on these issues, may be society needs also to change !!!!! Just may be.

    It is a hurdle being a black kid in this city trust me, and you will never understand it for you have never been one.

    EM
    A black parent
  4. 4real posted on 07/30/2012 06:40 PM
    The cops are too busy harassing motorists. $$$$$ QUOTAS $$$$
  5. EdwardM_8180 posted on 07/30/2012 07:13 PM
    Yo YoMan

    A true Jerry Agar reasoning, he wakes up to attack blacks when he has no clue who they are. Canadians!!!! God need to wake you up from this live sleep. Do you know when a Jamaican shot a bullet last in this city? These are Somalis. These are African kids we have brought into this country of kids have a right from the early 80’s sir. Husbands is Guyanese, The other punk that shot people on Danzig that got arrested and is protected by Toronto Police that we will never see his photograph in life, is Somali. Now you are going after Jamaicans. It is so frustrating for even when these Somali kids started to shoot each other during the Summer of guns, Police Chief Fantino flew to Jamaica to see how to fight corruption in Toronto. Did he not know the citizenship of these kids? No forget that, you see money comes out of Canadians as soon as you sell them a crappy story to believe. So he got paid to go Jamaica, had I done that I would have been questioned.

    Today the shooters are from Jamaica. What a population !!!!!

    EM
    A black parent
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