One time I was walking to Yorkwoods Library. I saw a small group of teens wearing school uniforms fooling around outside the Yorkwoods Theater. I passed amongst them when they sort of surrounding me. I looked down & ignored them when I heard some racial slurs targeting me. Out of the blue, I felt that some of these teenagers were throwing rocks at me. I walked faster into the Library when they continued throwing rocks at me.
When inside, I immediately told this Yorkwoods staff at the front counter what just happened. This staff named ''Jay'' did not care much & simply told me to report the incident to another staff. She refused to call the police as I requested.
I called the police using a payphone. Of course, our Toronto Police Service also acting quite indifferent & routine & they would not say how long they could send in police officers on site. I said I would wait as long as I could.
Going back inside Yorkwoods Library, found the staff person eventually to file the incident report. Then nothing as if this was something they experience multiple times EVERY DAY & THIS WAS NORMAL!! I was not even given a copy of this ''incident report'' even after I asked for it multiple times.
After about 90 minutes doing what I needed to do, the police still no where in sight. I left.
Then I somehow found out later that the police finally showed up many hours later (THEY EXPECT WE WOULD WAIT FOR THEM FOR HALF A DAY TO TELL THEM THE SAME THING I DID TO 911!) Apparently they left because I was not there AND NO YORKWOODS STAFF BOTHERED TO TELL THESE POLICE TO CONTACT ME AT HOME AS I REQUESTED WHEN I FILED THE INCIDENT REPORT WITH THIS LIBRARY & WHEN I LEFT!!!)
WHAT AN INDIFFERENT & NO HELP ATTITUDE WITH OUR TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY STAFF & THE TORONTO POLICE SERVICE (MY CONCLUSION IS BASED ON NOT A SINGLE OR EVEN A FEW INCIDENTS BUT ON SO MANY OUT OF MY PERSONAL EXPERENCE FOR DECADES)
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