A bullet knifes through the air and cuts a young life short.

It’s a horror Toronto has seen play out time and again.

This summer, eight-year-old JahVai Roy was killed in bed with his mother by his side, in what should have been the safest place he could be.

JahVai Roy, 8.

Two decades ago, it was the Boxing Day death of Jane Creba that seized Toronto. The 15-year-old had walked out of a Pizza Pizza while shopping with her sister and found herself in the middle of a gunfight. Then, as now, outrage surged and leaders called for action.

The truth is, for nearly two decades, Toronto has known what it takes to curb youth violence: address poverty, racism and inequality, not just gangs and guns.

The Star has reviewed 20 years of strategies, funding announcements and programs. Our anal

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