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It’s has been the steady, depressing drumbeat of news in Ottawa all year long: Shooting after shooting, stabbing after stabbing, senseless death after senseless death.
The nation’s capital has seen a record 65 shootings this year, and, with three weeks left in 2016, the city is two shy of a homicide total last set in 1994.
The 21st and 22nd slayings of the year happened within 24 hours: A shooting in Centretown late Saturday afternoon that left one man dead and sparked a manhunt for another who faces a charge of first-degree murder; then, overnight, a stabbing that left a 20-year-old dead. One man was in custody Sunday.
It’s left some questioning what has happened to a city that over the past 15 years has averaged just 10 homicides a year but which has seen increasing gun violence.
@JSlamsville @OttawaPolice here's a photo I took of my wife and son Thursday morning outside my house: pic.twitter.com/lsh3YzBgfe
— Justin Van Leeuwen (@justinvl) December 11, 2016
Totally agree. Death is a big deal RT @glengower: @joeboughner regardless of where violence happens, empathy and concern should be city-wide
— Anne Waters (@AMWATERS) December 11, 2016
The majority of the killings have been “targeted” as police say, with observers suggesting Ottawa hasn’t yet had its modern “Jane Creba moment,” the Boxing Day killing of a 15-year-old bystander in Toronto in 2005 that left a city reeling.
Coun. Mark Taylor found himself in hot water in March after saying that “If you don’t hang out with bad people, bad things don’t happen to you,” following the death of a 20-year-old man who was shot in the back of the head inside a Ritchie Street apartment on Feb. 24.
Others say it shouldn’t matter where the violence is happening and to whom, and add that it’s only a matter of time until more people become unintended victims of an increasingly violent climate.
Coun. Jeff Leiper called for a bigger police presence in his ward this week after a 17-year-old man was gunned down while sitting in a Jeep in Hintonburg.
Coun. Tim Tierney on Thursday repeated his call for closed-circuit TV monitoring on Jasmine Crescent after a stabbing on a street that has seen a fatal shooting already this year and two fatal stabbings last year.
On Sunday, the police chief acknowledged the growing toll, saying it will require a “multi faceted” approach to improve the situation in the city.
Another two senseless deaths this weekend. @OttawaPolice members hard at work holding those accountable. Too many lives lost this year.
— Charles Bordeleau (@ChiefBordeleau) December 11, 2016
Reducing the increasing number of murders in large urban centres requires a multi faceted approach. @AMWATERS @AaronRWise @amkfoote
— Charles Bordeleau (@ChiefBordeleau) December 11, 2016
Questioned on Twitter, Mayor Jim Watson said city officials are making investments in safer communities, and have hired 25 new officers this years and plan to do the same in each of the next two years.
Ottawa remains a safe city statistically.
What do you think is happening in our city? What measures would you like to see taken and by whom?
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The nation’s capital has seen a record 65 shootings this year, and, with three weeks left in 2016, the city is two shy of a homicide total last set in 1994.
The 21st and 22nd slayings of the year happened within 24 hours: A shooting in Centretown late Saturday afternoon that left one man dead and sparked a manhunt for another who faces a charge of first-degree murder; then, overnight, a stabbing that left a 20-year-old dead. One man was in custody Sunday.
It’s left some questioning what has happened to a city that over the past 15 years has averaged just 10 homicides a year but which has seen increasing gun violence.
@JSlamsville @OttawaPolice here's a photo I took of my wife and son Thursday morning outside my house: pic.twitter.com/lsh3YzBgfe
— Justin Van Leeuwen (@justinvl) December 11, 2016
Totally agree. Death is a big deal RT @glengower: @joeboughner regardless of where violence happens, empathy and concern should be city-wide
— Anne Waters (@AMWATERS) December 11, 2016
The majority of the killings have been “targeted” as police say, with observers suggesting Ottawa hasn’t yet had its modern “Jane Creba moment,” the Boxing Day killing of a 15-year-old bystander in Toronto in 2005 that left a city reeling.
Coun. Mark Taylor found himself in hot water in March after saying that “If you don’t hang out with bad people, bad things don’t happen to you,” following the death of a 20-year-old man who was shot in the back of the head inside a Ritchie Street apartment on Feb. 24.
Others say it shouldn’t matter where the violence is happening and to whom, and add that it’s only a matter of time until more people become unintended victims of an increasingly violent climate.
Coun. Jeff Leiper called for a bigger police presence in his ward this week after a 17-year-old man was gunned down while sitting in a Jeep in Hintonburg.
Coun. Tim Tierney on Thursday repeated his call for closed-circuit TV monitoring on Jasmine Crescent after a stabbing on a street that has seen a fatal shooting already this year and two fatal stabbings last year.
On Sunday, the police chief acknowledged the growing toll, saying it will require a “multi faceted” approach to improve the situation in the city.
Another two senseless deaths this weekend. @OttawaPolice members hard at work holding those accountable. Too many lives lost this year.
— Charles Bordeleau (@ChiefBordeleau) December 11, 2016
Reducing the increasing number of murders in large urban centres requires a multi faceted approach. @AMWATERS @AaronRWise @amkfoote
— Charles Bordeleau (@ChiefBordeleau) December 11, 2016
Questioned on Twitter, Mayor Jim Watson said city officials are making investments in safer communities, and have hired 25 new officers this years and plan to do the same in each of the next two years.
Ottawa remains a safe city statistically.
What do you think is happening in our city? What measures would you like to see taken and by whom?
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