A 17-year-old boy, Jaydin Simpson, shot and killed late last Thursday, not 50 metres from his front door. Was a time in Toronto, not that long ago, when a teenager’s murder would have been front-page news, a city aghast and appalled. We shrug off bloodshed, most especially when the violence seems contained within neighbourhoods where most outsiders would never venture. The murder analytics indicate Toronto hasn’t run so red on the streets this year, nowhere near the record urban killing field of 2018 — 96 homicides. Because here it could have been anybody’s son, or daughter, as it has been with too much regularity in the past.

Source: thestar July 01, 2019 21:32 UTC