In “Falling Crime and Rising Budget, Is Toronto overpoliced?”, Shannon Kari (2015) claim that the crime rate in Toronto is falling. A comparison with Chicago was researched and shows that Toronto has much fewer murder crimes committed than Chicago (p.2). She also adds that crime has fallen by twenty percent in the last three year putting Toronto third of the safest cities in Canada (p.4).
Shannon then argues that there is a rise in the budget for the police. She believes that ninety percent of the money covers the salaries and bonuses (p.3). She points out that The Peel region has the same crime rate as Toronto yet Peel’s budget is twenty percent lower (p.5).
Shannon questions whether it is possible to reduce the cost of the budgets. She