In April, the Toronto Star began using data from the Toronto Police Service to publish stories about break-and-enters across the city, using data from the Toronto Police Service. Since then, it’s published around six stories a week that round up the break-and-enter reports from each of Toronto’s six districts.
The stories all follow pretty much the same format. They don’t include personal information, like names or specific addresses. The headlines report the number of break-and-enters in a specific district from the last week. The first few paragraphs of the total number of break-and-enters in the entire city for that week, followed by the total number since the start of the year. It then notes whether break-and-enters have increased or decreased and by what percentage in the same period from the prior year. It then lists each break-and-enter report, categorized by district neighborhood in alphabetical order.
