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Victim advocates say it ’does nothing but victimize and denigrate’

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t’s a common question for detectives at homicide news conferences: Was the victim (or the suspect if he’s been identified) known to police?

Investigators typically answer the question but decline to provide details.

The term "known to police," particularly when used to describe victims of violence, has become controversial, with some victims’ families speaking out against its use.

Police reportedly used the phrase to describe the three victims of a July 23 shooting at a birthday barbecue in the backyard of the Lewis family home in Scarborough, prompting the family to denounce the term.

"Time and time again it has been noted for its ambiguity and inherent laziness. It does not inform the reader but instead is a device utilized to demean, injure and dehumanize the victim," a family spokesperson told reporters a few days after the shooting. "How does this chorus help the societal interest of fighting crime?

How does it advance the societal interest of informing the public? . Without more, this chorus does nothing but victimize and denigrate. Ultimately, the continued use of this chorus diminishes us all as it seeks to deprive us of empathy and compassion that common humanity requires of all people."

Cal Millar, a retired Toronto crime reporter, said the term, likely coined by journalists, was around when he began his career in the mid-1960s.

"It meant does he have a record. It was a bit of a euphemism," he said.

But today the term can mean more than a criminal record.

"When we are asked, we will say known to police (when) there are charges that have

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What does being ’known to police’ mean in Toronto?

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Jooyoung Lee, associate professor of sociology at University of Toronto, suggests that the media and the police should ditch the phrase "known to police" when describing victims of violence. been laid by a police service on this person for a Criminal Code offence," Toronto police spokesperson Const. Jenifferjit Sidhu said. But the term is not used to describe witnesses, victims or those charged with a Highway Traffic Act offence.

It’s also not used to refer to those who have been questioned during a street check, a practice that was referred to as carding in Toronto.

Millar suggested the term was used less in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s because police were more open about the record of an arrested individual or suspect.

"There was probably more cooperation at that time between the media and the police.

They weren’t as adversarial," he said. "When I started, it was like ’Here’s a copy of the police report.’ You actually got a copy of the occurrence to look at. .

And we got mugshots."

In the ’90s, police were more restrictive with releasing information on a person’s criminal history, and they and the media began using known to police more often.

"In the past, it was referring to a person who was arrested," Millar said. "But it’s come into common practice now to make references that way to some of the victims."

Rob Lamberti , a retired crime reporter who teaches journalism at Humber College, suggested the term often helps reassure a community that a crime was not random.

"It was a way of saying to our audiences that ’Don’t worry, general society is not at risk or is not a target because this person (the victim) was known to police and may have exposed himself to a high-risk lifestyle,’" he said. "But the ambiguity has always bothered me. I

just wish that we could be specific. Maybe they (police) can’t and they’re trying to meet us halfway."

Louis March, founder of Zero Gun Violence Movement (which works with both murder victims’ families and former inmates), said he has a "major problem" with the term because it creates a stigma.

"It triggers a response when you say known to police. And that might not be the most beneficial statement if you want to solve the case," he said.

"Once you use that term, people start thinking differently. .

We need to stick to the facts.

Report on the facts of the case."

Jooyoung Lee, associate professor of sociology at University of Toronto, also argues the term shouldn’t be used.

"It unfairly creates the presumption of guilt around the person, who in homicide cases

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CAL MILLAR is not around to defend their name," he said. "It’s just another way that society creates the image of a guilty crime victim. .

It creates this idea that a person is guilty of doing something and that’s why they were a victim of a terrible crime."

The term is entrenched in popular culture and the way police and some journalists communicate, the professor noted.

"It is on one hand a very convenient shorthand for describing a person, but when you start to unpack it and scrutinize it, you realize that it’s really leaving out much more than it reveals."

But Millar said journalists should report any information they know.

"And if that’s all they know, that’s what they should be reporting because the public have a right to know."

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Club offers wide-ranging programs for children, teens AARON D’ANDREA adandrea@metroland.com On a late September afternoon, students from nearby schools in Dovercourt Park are making their way to the Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club.

Inside its gym, dozens of children are waiting for their peers to arrive so they can go off to their various after-school programs.

Some of them are running around playing tag and others are sitting on the floor sketching art.

They’re ready to have fun - something Chantelle Boxill knows all about from her days at Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club (DBGC).

"All my friends came to the club. Everybody in the

neighbourhood I knew went to the club," the 24year-old told The Bloor West Villager. "It was this thing that we did after school whether it was for fun or to come and watch movies with your friends or play in the gym . it was just somewhere you could hang out with your friends."

Boxill said she started attending the club when she was seven, and when she entered high school, she enrolled in its teen program and did volunteer work.

She’s now a staff member and thanks the club for giving her opportunities in life.

"They basically built me into the person I am," she said. " . It was a second home."

This year, DBGC is celebrating 60 years in the community. It provides programs for children and youth from ages four to 17 that teach academic skills, social skills, proper nutri-

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Staff member Chantelle Boxill takes a shot on the pool table in the newly renovated games room at the Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club. On front: Executive director Sheldon Taylor chats with a group of children ahead of the organization’s second annual Harvest Festival to be held Oct. 14. tion, physical education and more.

It also has a daycare program at its Dovercourt location that serves children from two-and-a-half to 12 years old.

According to its summer camp schedule, members were able to participate in soccer tournaments, scavenger hunts and more.

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The club also does outreach work in the community to help families in need. One of its projects is its Christmas Hamper program where families receive food, clothing, supplies and other gifts.

Last year, DBGC distributed the hampers to close to 380 families.

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40 years ago serving almost 400 families. That is not to say help wasn’t being given, but not on the scale that we have now to support our families and members," said Sheldon Taylor, the club’s executive director. "The scale is phenomenal because the type of work that many families still do . is not as sound as one would think."

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Between its two locations in Dovercourt and the Junction Triangle, the club served close to 1,600 children and youth and an estimated 3,600 families last year.

Furthermore, the club serves an estimated 15,000 meals and 150,000 snacks per year.

The national organization, Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada, lost one of its longtime supporters in Sears Canada back in June amid financial challenges.

"Somehow, through partnerships, through funders who’ve remained loyal ... we’re able to carry out our mandate and ensure the vision remains true to purpose," Taylor said.

At the end of the day, Boxill said everything DBGC does is for the communities it serves.

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’Known to police’ are three words that need to go Words always matter – but when they’re put to work talking about the victims and perpetrators of violent crime, from the mouths of police to the pens of journalists, they matter doubly so.

And they should be employed with great care. When someone is accused of murdering someone but not yet convicted, it’s irresponsible of police to call them a murderer, and wrong of reporters to describe them as anything other than the accused.

When police offer up a description from eyewitnesses of a suspect in a crime, it’s the same thing: we speak of a suspect and not a criminal.

When we do this, we are very mindful of the rights and presumptions of the accused - we must presume innocence.

Sadly, we are not nearly so careful about the rights of victims - or the memories of those deceased.

As Metroland Media Toronto’s crime specialist Andrew Palamarchuk tells us this week, both press and police regularly besmirch reputations and destroy memories, by including three simple words – "known to police" – when describing some crime victims.

What does "known to police" mean?

It doesn’t mean that police have carded the individual, or that they’ve called the police for help – so it’s not entirely innocent.

But it also doesn’t necessarily mean that the person has been convicted of a crime.

Police in Toronto use the term when a charge has been laid by police for a Criminal Code offense, of which the person may or may not be guilty.

The term does serve a kind of coded purpose: it lets the public know that a violent crime that took place perhaps not far from their home may have been a result of a dispute between criminals, or in the commission of a criminal act.

It is a comfort.

The problem is, of course, that it really shouldn’t provide comfort. What it does provide is innuendo, against the reputation of people who on the face of it have done nothing worse than find themselves in a bullet’s path.

And those people, and their friends, have every right to take offense. This happened following a July 23 shooting at a backyard party at the Scarborough home of Elma Lewis.

Three people, including her daughter, were shot.

Police used the phrase to describe each of them – to no end other than provide reassurances to the neighbours in the otherwise peaceful Scarborough neighbourhood that for them, nothing had changed.

Reassurance paid for with the innuendo of "known to police" is no reassurance at all.

Words matter, and we need to be more careful with those three.

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Pedestrian deaths stand unmarked on our roads Warden Avenue south of the 401 is brutal and clogged, funneling traffic from the highway over and down a hill to Ellesmere Road.

Trucks cut in, and you can sense frustration. By day, the five lanes crawl. By night, they speed up.

At Continental Place, a plaza restaurant was still busy at 9:30 p.m. last week when a family of four carried their takeout food across Warden.

The mother, 33, and her five-year-old girl were hit by cars going in both directions. The second driver fled.

The next day, a scrap of yellow police tape around a concrete pole was the only sign two young, promising lives had ended violently there.

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto Clint Stibbe, a Toronto traffic services cop, studied the intersection. Would a crosswalk help? No, not if drivers coming up or down the hill can’t see it.

A pedestrian refuge?

They’re made of soft steel, Stibbe said, shaking his head. "If a car hits that, it’s going through it."

Meanwhile, people continued crossing Warden where the family crossed.

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In recent years, the city installed accessible pedestrian signals down at Ellesmere and at Lupin Drive, a short walk north.

But people cross where they cross; the family, perhaps hurrying to catch a bus, or because dinner was late and the children tired, tried the short way.

Milorad Radiskovic, who lives north of the highway, was walking home. He said drivers barely seem to acknowledge pedestrians are there.

"Where is it better? The downtown? It’s a hell everywhere."

That evening, I left a meeting to find McCowan Road lit up by ambulances and police cruisers beyond the recreation centre driveway. I was looking at another pedestrian death scene,

and didn’t know it.

A man of 71 was run down crossing McCowan.

Hours earlier, on Birchmount Road, another pedestrian died, a man of 56.

Murder stains neighbourhoods for years. But pedestrians’ deaths are forgotten. They stand unmarked.

We don’t usually learn their names.

Cyclists leave ghost bikes to mark fatalities. On Bayview Avenue south of 401, there’s one I’ve seen for years. No mistaking its message.

Does Toronto now need ghost pedestrians too? How else can these deaths be seen?

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l Wednesday, October 11 SASA Writing Circle WHEN: 10:00 a.m - 12:30 p.m WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavina Ave, Toronto CONTACT: Susie Whelehan, 416-767-3427, swhelehan@gmail.com, http:// swanseatownhall.ca COST: Everyone has a story to tell. This circle is open to all seniors. All styles of writing are welcome: memoir, essay, poetry or fiction.

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l Saturday, October 14 Hurricane Hazel Walk WHEN: 10:30 a.m - 12:30 p.m WHERE: Old Mill Subway Station , 2672 Bloor Street West, Toronto CONTACT: Toronto Field Naturalist, http://www.torontofieldnaturalists.org/ COST: The walk starts at Old Mill subway station and heads north to Lambton House. The walk includes a steep set of stairs down and 2.6 km historical walk along the Humber River.

l Thursday, October 12 Hilary Porado Art Show and Sale - Meet the Artist Reception WHEN: 6:00 p.m - 8:00 p.m WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave., Toronto CONTACT: 416 392 1954, frontdesk@swanseatownhall.ca, http://swanseatownhall.ca/sth/?p=5395 COST: Drop by the Swansea Town Hall 2nd floor between September 6th and October 20th to see the works of local artist Hilary Porado.

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Guests can expect vegan schnitzel, black-eyed pea sausages, gluten-free pretzels and more.

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Participants are encouraged to bring a lunch, or try some of the restaurants in the area.

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Bloor West Village author receives award nod for short story collection Bloor West Village resident and author Diane Bracuk is nominated for an Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award.

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Exterior/Interior – CALL ANDREW

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