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TORONTO — Anthony Earl Smith is the first entry on an inglorious list.

The 41-year-old was shot to death on Jan. 8, around 7:45 a.m. on a Sunday, around Queen and Seaton Sts.

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Smith was — quite literally — number one with a bullet. The city’s first homicide of 2017.

The murder remains unsolved.

During the past five years, the clearance rate for homicides in the city has plunged to an alarming 40%.

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For murders involving guns, the solve rate hovers under 10%, sources told the Toronto Sun.

“It’s significant — 40% is the worst in years,” Toronto Police Association president Mike McCormack told the Sun. “It’s not the investigators, they’re among the best in the business.”

In 2015, the clearance rate was a respectable 64%.

In addition, in 2012, Toronto cops made 58,000 arrests. In 2016? Just 29,000.

McCormack said the crisis is exacerbated by significant cuts in the number of cops on the street — a drop in 600 officers in the last five years — who frequently gathered bits of intelligence organically that solved cases.