Safe Streets Toronto Centre
Church • Queen • Shuter • Jarvis
Church • Queen • Shuter • Jarvis
Public spaces should be safe and usable for everyone.
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The Situation
Recurring illegal activity in shared public spaces
Residents, workers, businesses, and visitors in Toronto Centre are reporting repeated open-air drug use, suspected dealing, discarded paraphernalia, and related disorder around the same intersections. People who need help should be offered help — and shared public spaces should still be safe to use.
The Petition
THE PETITION
What We Want
WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOR
Outcomes
HOW WE WILL MEASURE SUCCESS
- Less recurring open drug activity
- Less visible drug dealing and trafficking
- Fewer repeat incidents at the same hotspots
- Safer sidewalks, storefronts, and building entrances
- Fewer discarded needles and drug paraphernalia
- A consistent response when problem locations begin deteriorating again
The objective is not simply more police presence. The objective is measurable improvement in the safety and usability of our shared public spaces.
Why This Petition Exists
Accountability, Not a Blind Eye
Our neighbourhood is not naive about the challenges of addiction, homelessness, and mental health. These issues deserve real services, real shelter, and real help.
But ignoring recurring illegal activity is not compassion. Letting people deteriorate on the sidewalk, exposed to predators, violence, and disease, is not a humane policy. It is not compassionate to let someone rot in public while neighbours are expected to simply look away.
It is not acceptable for residents, workers, or children to have to walk through open drug smoke, step around discarded needles, or feel threatened on the way to school, work, or home.
When a local corner is openly known as “Crackhead Corner,” it is not evidence of a tolerant city. It is evidence that a problem has been acknowledged and then abandoned. It means the neighbourhood has accepted the situation, and the will to enforce the most basic laws has been treated as optional.
That needs to change. Help should be available. Public safety should still be enforced.
Residents regularly encounter situations such as:
- Open drug use, including meth and fentanyl smoke, near children, families, and workers
- Suspected drug dealing at known corners
- Discarded needles and drug paraphernalia
- Aggressive, threatening, or violent behaviour
- Entrances and sidewalks being blocked
- People left in medical crisis or overdose on the street
- Recurring disorder concentrated around the same locations
These are recurring issues being reported in the immediate area.
Our Neighbourhood
Where this campaign is focused
This campaign is starting with the area around Church, Queen, Shuter, and Jarvis in Toronto Centre.
- Church & Queen
- Church & Shuter
- Jarvis & Shuter
- Jarvis & Queen
Community Reporting
What Are You Seeing?
If you regularly live, work, or spend time in this area, tell us what you are personally seeing. These reports will help identify recurring locations, times, and patterns that can be raised with Toronto Police Service and City officials.
This form is for documenting neighbourhood conditions. It does not replace 911, Toronto Police Service, or 311. Do not confront, follow, or attempt to identify individuals. Individual reports are never published.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Add Your Name
If you believe public spaces around Church, Queen, Shuter, and Jarvis should be safe and usable while people in crisis still have access to appropriate help, sign the petition.
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