West-enders battle plan to replace schools with police stations

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As new neighbours go, the Toronto police could be considered desirable.

But that depends on your neighbourhood.

While
parts of this city cry out for a more muscular police presence, a plan
to move a pair of crumbling police stations onto the sites of two empty
schools west of downtown has upset some of the prospective next-door
neighbours.

Opponents of the plan argue that ‘deeply residential’
areas are no place for police stations. The cops should be restricted
to setting up shop on major thoroughfares, they say.

‘My major
concerns would be traffic, pollution, noise and people or drunks who
arent from this neighbourhood being arrested and released onto our
streets,’ said Elizabeth Sweeting, a member of the Carleton Village
Residents Association.

Kelly Grants full story here.

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(Via national post.)