$5 million budget for TAVIS being cut in half: report

Toronto’s special crime-fighting task force is reportedly being scaled back.

The Toronto Star reports that the Ministry of Safety and Correctional Services is cutting the $5 million budget for Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy unit (TAVIS) in half, and plans to ultimately axe the program.

TAVIS deploys officers into high-crime neighbourhoods to curb guns and gang activity.

The Star reports the ministry is shifting away from hard-line policing, and putting the focus on prevention instead.

TAVIS was formed in 2005 during Toronto’s infamous “Summer of the Gun,” when 67 per cent of the city’s 78 homicides were gun-related.

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