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Globe and Mail: Inner-city residents buoyed as Toronto crime drops
By: TIMOTHY APPLEBY AND KATE HAMMER
Published: July 1, 2008 at 1:32 AM EDT
Source: Globe and MailTORONTO — The changes are subtle, but Debora McIntosh, a 56-year-old grandmother raising four boys in the inner-city public-housing labyrinth called Alexandra Park Cooperative, perceives a flicker of hope.
When she opens her front door in the morning, she often sees a policeman on a bicycle. When a marked cruiser pulls up in the grimy courtyard, no longer do all the loitering teenagers scatter: Some stick around to talk to the cops.
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