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06/23/08

11:36:11 am, by

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Categories: Canadiana, Murder & Mayhem, Book Reviews

Life On Homicide

Over this past weekend I started reading former Toronto police chief William McCormack's memoir entitled Life On Homicide. The book gives a chilling series of accounts of Toronto the Good more darker side, specifically through the years 1969 - 1979.

So far it has helped in restoring my faith in Toronto coppers that was severely shaken after reading Derek Finkle's book on the Robert Baltovich case entitled No Claim To Mercy which ended up showing how bad policing amongst other problems within our Canadian criminal justice system can result in innocent people going to prison for crimes that they did not commit.

William McCormack writes of a different era, and a different Toronto that includes a city core that is long gone and pre-Eaton Centre.

He does not glamorise the job of a homicide detective at all, and gives a realistic, and in my opinion thus far a compassionate look at the way crimes such as murder have impacted our city. A great read so far, and a must for those interested in true crime, and the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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