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RSS FeedsDozens of killings in Toronto´s record-tying year remain unsolved - so why do some killers avoid justice?
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

14 november 2018 22:56:22

 
Dozens of killings in Toronto´s record-tying year remain unsolved - so why do some killers avoid justice?
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


There’s a police spin on the saying, “It takes a village to raise a child.” It goes, “It takes a village to catch a killer.”“The major way you’re going to solve (a homicide) is through the public,” said D. Kim Rossmo, an internationally respected criminologist and former Vancouver detective inspector. “They have to have trust in the police.”With the shooting death of Yohannes Brhanu, 22, Toronto on Wednesday matched a record for homicides in a single year, at 89, with more than six weeks to spare. By the Star’s count, police have not yet made an arrest in 34 of those killings, excluding a single apparent murder-suicide. The Star does not know whether arrests are pending in any these killings. In at least seven, police have issued a warrant for one or more known suspects who have not yet been arrested. Toronto police say the force has a 67 per cent clearance rate on homicides this year — a number which is comparable to recent years. So why do some killers avoid justice?Arresting them is easier said than done. It takes a commitment in staffing for police to cultivate links with often-alienated, vulnerable communities, said Rossmo, a pioneer in geographic profiling who’s now director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation at Texas State University.One approach is to send more beat officers out into communities. Beat officers can learn the patterns and comfort zones for drug dealers, sexual predators and burglars. Perhaps more importantly, beat officers also can develop trust by putting a human face on the police force, encouraging members of the community to come forward with vital information, Rossmo said.“I walked a beat for many years in Skid Row,” said Rossmo. “That was very useful.”Getting beat officers out into communities is expensive and tough work.The alternative is frightening. The Washington Post studied more than 52,000 homicides in ...


 
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