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Defund the police — and then what? What Toronto can learn from the places out in front of a global movement

…Policing homelessness, it turns out, is costly. In Toronto, an average of $59,000 (Canadian) of public resources is spent on each homeless person with a mental illness, according to a 2017 study led by Ï㽶ÊÓƵ professor Eric Latimer. The research calculated the costs of services including shelters, hospitals and social assistance - but it was policing and court appearances that were the biggest expense, at $12,393 per person.

Toronto Star