Advocates who work with Toronto’s homeless community say they’ve observed an alarming uptick in violence against those who are unhoused.
Toronto police and the city say they don’t collect specific data on attacks against homeless individuals, but street pastor Doug Johnson Hatlem and Diana Chan McNally, a harm reduction case manager, say they’ve noticed an escalation in physical and verbal assaults in recent months based on interactions with those they work with.
McNally, a harm reduction case manager with All Saints Church, said she’s seeing more homeless people with bruises, cuts and various other injuries after being assaulted by strangers. Other recent incidents include the slashing of two homeless people last month. A 21-year-old Toronto man has been arrested in that case.
In an interim report released last year, the city’s ombudsman said the municipality must treat people living in homeless encampments with dignity and respect as it continues to remove those living at local parks.
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