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June, 8, 2016. Maybe that’s the day it all began, the day Toronto lost the battle and the bad guys decided the city was theirs to take over.

It sure felt like the bad guys had taken over on Thursday, when Torontonians were asking how the hell their city had gotten to the point where a 14-year-old boy is abducted as collateral in a $4 million drug deal gone bad.

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The boy has been found, thankfully. The abductors are still at large. The public outrage is immense.

Then again, outrage was immense in the summer of 2018, when thugs brazenly fired into a playground and hit two young girls. And yet here we are, still feeling like things have slipped out of our fingers, that we’re losing control.

Back to 2016: Three armed punks robbed eight people at gunpoint in coffee shops in downtown Toronto’s trendy Kensington Market. Rather than flee the scene of the crime, they proudly stuck around to loiter. Cops showed up and confronted them.