The Parkside Drive speed camera (near High Park) has been vandalized repeatedly — cut down, dragged, thrown into a pond, etc. In less than a year, it’s been taken down seven times.
More broadly, there have been hundreds of incidents of Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) cameras being vandalized across the city in 2025 — approximately 325 reported incidents so far. These include damage, sabotage, or destruction. Some of the cameras have been damaged “beyond repair.” In 2024, for example, the city reported 12 ASE cameras vandalized beyond repair, meaning their damage was so severe they couldn’t be fixed.
The Toronto police within approximately a year of Mayor Olivia Chow got an approval to increase workforce. Toronto Police also is supposedly having the best technologies in the world required by law enforcement.
Whether it is quality of law enforcement or an unwillingness to actually get this theft resolved needs to be seen.
Until then the public of Toronto will keep on bearing the brunt of financial impact resulting out of this theft.
CK Sharma
Toronto