"Data is central to a lot of our partnerships, and IPV is one of those community safety issues which requires enhanced collaboration, said Ian Williams, director of information management for Toronto police. The ability to understand patterns, trends, and the impact over time to communities throughout the city is so critical to understanding and addressing intimate partner violence. Ian Williams, director of information management for TPS, says releasing intimate partner violence data publicly will help the service work with its partners to address this issue."
"There is no specific criminal charge for intimate partner violence, so the collective occurrences include a number of charges including assault, murder, sexual assault, threatening, harassment and intimidation against intimate partners. Both police and a local women's shelter say making these numbers public is an important step in raising awareness on this issue, which the City of Toronto declared an epidemic in 2023."
"It's great that this data is getting out there, because once the data is out there, it's evidence, and it shows the reality of the situation, said Carol Latchford, executive director of North York Women's Shelter, one of 14 gender-based violence shelters across Toronto. It's not getting better. It's like a disease. Latchford wasn't surprised to see that the number of occurrences in Toronto each year hasn't changed much over the last"
Toronto police added detailed intimate partner violence (IPV) statistics to an open data portal covering 2014 through the end of last year, with breakdowns by neighbourhood, police division, month and day of week. Annual IPV occurrences have stayed between about 17,200 and 19,300 over the last decade. IPV incidents are logged under multiple criminal charges because there is no specific IPV offence, including assault, murder, sexual assault, threatening, harassment and intimidation. Public release of the data aims to enable partners to analyse patterns, trends and impacts over time and support collaborative community-safety responses after the City declared IPV an epidemic in 2023.
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