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Scarborough Junction (also known as Kennedy Park) is a Toronto neighbourhood that is located in the Scarborough region of the city. The neighbourhood boundaries are Birchmount Road in the west, Brimley Road in the east, Eglinton Avenue in the north and St. Clair Avenue in the south. The neighbourhood gets its name from the railway tracks that run through the area alongside Danforth Road. It received this name in 1873 when a post office using this name was opened near Kennedy Road and St. Clair Avenue. The neighbourhood is made up of mostly single-family homes and Pine Hills Cemetary takes up a significant portion of the neighbourhood’s area. The amount of parkland in this region is the reason it is sometimes known as “Kennedy Park.”

Scarborough Junction Crime Rates

In the area bordered by Eglinton Avenue in the north, Birchmount Road in the west, Kennedy Road in the east and the ravine south of Chelwood Road and Frimette Court in the south, there is an average of 9.5 crimes against people per 1000 living and working in the region. There is an average of 10.06 crimes against property per 1000. South of this region to St. Clair Avenue, still between Kennedy Road and Birchmount Road, there is an average of 15.89 crimes against people and 20.38 crimes against property. The average crime rates are the same in the area bordered by Eglinton Avenue, Kennedy Road, Corvette Avenue and the public transit tracks heading into Kennedy Station. The region directly to the west across to Brimley Road and bordered by the train tracks leading to Kennedy Station, Danforth Road (until Falmouth Avenue) and the train tracks east of Glenshepard Drive (not including Glenshepard Park) has an average of 10.94 crimes against people per 1000 and 23.49 crimes against property. The area bordered by Corvette Avenue in the north,  St. Clair Avenue in the south, Kennedy Road in the west and Midland Avenue in the east, there is an average of 7.08 crimes against people and 17.75 crimes against property. In the region bordered by Danforth Road in the north, the train tracks in the south, Midland Avenue in the west and Glenshepard Drive in the east (including Glenshepard Park) there is an average of 11.27 crimes against people and 16.91 crimes against property. South of the train tracks to St. Clair Avenue, there is an average of 12.24 crimes against people and 17.31 crimes against property.

Scarborough Junction Crime

In February 2011 a man was stabbed in the area. The victim walked home before calling police. From 680 News:

Local police are investigating a stabbing that took place in Scarborough. Police are having a hard time find the crime scene. The victim called police from his home on Danforth Road shortly before 10 p.m. Friday night. Police said he was actually stabbed somewhere else in the Brimley Road and Eglinton Avenue area.

In September 2011, a man was shot and killed near Birchmount Road and Danforth Road. From CBC News:

Toronto police are investigating after a man was shot and killed early Saturday morning near Birchmount Road and Danforth Road. The shooting took place at about 4 a.m., according to police. The victim was taken to hospital but died of his injuries.

In July 2010, a man died after being stabbed in the Scarborough Junction neighbourhood. From CTV:

A man in his thirties is dead after he was stabbed in the city’s east end early Wednesday morning. Police say the victim was stabbed at Magnolia Avenue at Danforth Road and drove himself to a gas station across the street from Scarborough General Hospital just before 4 a.m.

Another man was stabbed in the area in April 2010. This time the stabbing occurred near Birchmount Road and St. Clair Avenue. From Inside Toronto:

A man is recovering after being stabbed in the abdomen on Birchmount Road Friday, April 30, afternoon. The violence occurred north of St. Clair Avenue at about 3 p.m. The victim was in stable condition when taken by ambulance to St. Michael’s Hospital.

Scarborough Junction Crime Report article Safetech Security @ 2012

Kensington Market is a Toronto neighbourhood and primarily outdoor market located in downtown Toronto. The neighbourhood boundaries are College Street in the north, Dundas Street in the south, Spadina Avenue in the east and Bathurst Street in the west.  Other major streets in the area include Augusta Avenue, Nassau Street, Baldwin Street and Kensington Avenue. The actual Kensington Market itself is a major area in the neighbourhood, but there are a number of Victorian homes in the neighbourhood as well as Kensington Community School and Toronto Western Hospital. The Kensington Market neighbourhood itself is very diverse.

Kensington Market Crime Rates

The Kensington Market neighbourhood has an average of 12.71 crimes against people per 1000 living and working in the region. It also has an average of 41.76 crimes against property per 1000. When looking at the crime rate of a specific area it is important that you do not focus all of your attention solely on the exact neighbourhood in question. Criminals do not immediately stop at certain streets or other arbitrary boundaries. Therefore you are able to determine more about a neighbourhood by looking at the areas that surround it as well. Neighbourhoods close to Kensington Marketing include Little Italy and Chinatown. For more information on neighbourhood crime, please visit the neighbourhood crime reports section of our website.

Kensington Market Crime

In May 2011, three men were shot in Kensington Market. From CBC News:

Three men were shot early Sunday morning outside an after-hours club in Toronto’s Kensington Market, police said. Emergency personnel were dispatched to an area on Augusta Avenue near Denison Square around 4:30 a.m. Paramedics said they took one person to hospital with a minor gunshot wound, but police later said three people had been shot and injured, all minor.

Weeks later, in June 2011, another shooting took place in the area. From Inside Toronto:

Toronto Police are investigating the second shooting in as many weeks in the Kensington Market area. This latest incident took place Sunday, June 12 at 3:30 a.m. when two groups of men reportedly got into an altercation outside a bar near College and Bathurst streets. Investigators report one of the men involved in the fight pulled out a handgun and shot a man in his 20s in the stomach. A second man in his 40s suffered a gun shot wound to the leg. Both victims were rushed to hospital and treated for their injuries.

In August 2010, two people were taken to the hospital after a shooting on Grange Avenue, near Augusta. From the Toronto Star:

Two men were taken to hospital Thursday evening after a double shooting near Kensington Market. According to police, the shooting happened around 7 p.m. on Grange Ave., near Augusta Ave. When officers arrived they found two victims — a man in his early 20s who had been shot in the torso and a second man who was shot in the foot, an EMS official confirmed. Both were taken to a nearby trauma center — the man in his early 20s in serious condition. The second victim is expected to recover.

In July 2009 a man was stabbed repeatedly with a broken golf club in Bellevue Square Park near Kensington Market. From Digital Journal:

A man was found stabbed four times with the shaft of a broken golf club Wednesday evening near Kensington Market in Toronto. The man was rushed to hospital before 7 pm with serious injuries. He was stabbed in the face, twice in the right side and once in his lower back.

In May 2007 a man was shot in Kensington Market. From CTV:

A man in his mid-20s was shot in the head near Kensington Market early Sunday morning, the Toronto Star reports. Emergency officials found the victim on Augusta Avenue, near College Street and Spadina Avenue, after being called to the scene at about 3 a.m. Kensington Market Crime Report article from Safetech Security @ 2012