Not safety advice or a direction to avoid a place.
StreetLens is an early public-interest data visualization. It is not an emergency, navigation, personal-safety, legal, housing, employment, insurance, policing, or real-estate decision service. Do not rely on it as a prediction of what will happen, as proof that a place is safe or unsafe, or as an instruction to avoid any area.
For an emergency or immediate danger, call 911 or the appropriate emergency service.
A model of published reports, not ground truth.
The map shows StreetLens estimates derived from police-reported occurrence records. A report is not a finding of guilt, proof that an offence occurred as first described, or a measure of all victimization. Reporting and enforcement patterns are uneven.
- TPS says its data can be preliminary, unverified, incomplete, delayed, reclassified, or affected by human and mechanical error.
- Published locations are deliberately offset to nearby intersections and must be treated as approximate—not as a specific address or person.
- StreetLens adds its own deduplication, spatial assignment, severity, setting, exposure, shrinkage, threshold, and display choices. Those outputs are not TPS or City statistics.
- Back-testing checks group-level persistence in historical records; it does not validate individual danger, causation, or future events.
- Colour makes no allegation about a resident, worker, business, property, institution, or community.
The current published source window ends 2026-07-12. See the methodology for the model and uncertainty notes.
Open data, modified by StreetLens.
StreetLens is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Toronto Police Service, the City of Toronto, OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, or OpenStreetMap. Official names identify sources only; no official logo or mark is used.
Toronto Police Service open data
Includes Major Crime Indicators, current-year reported crime, bicycle theft, theft from motor vehicle, shootings and firearm discharges, and homicide feeds. StreetLens modifies and combines the records.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
City of Toronto open data
Toronto Centreline geometry and multimodal intersection traffic counts are modified and combined to form street corridors and a partial pedestrian-activity adjustment.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto.
Basemap
OpenFreeMap · © OpenMapTiles · Data from OpenStreetMap contributors.
Challenge the record without changing it automatically.
Anyone can submit a private correction. Submissions are leads for review, not votes, and never publish directly. StreetLens may verify against source data, preserve an internal editorial record, correct a material error, add context, or decline a request that is unsupported or seeks to identify or target a person.
Minimal collection, with map-specific realities.
The StreetLens operator is accountable for personal information handled by the service. This notice describes the current MVP; a materially different use requires an updated notice.
Information handled
- Hosting and security providers may process IP address, browser and device details, requested URLs or tile paths, timestamps, and diagnostic events to deliver and protect the service.
- Map filters and the last map view are stored in your browser's local storage. StreetLens currently uses no advertising or analytics tracker on the public map.
- If you choose browser geolocation, the coordinate is used in your browser to recenter the map. The resulting tile requests reveal the approximate map area being viewed to the StreetLens host and the basemap provider.
- A correction can contain the subject, date, category, details, a public link, and an optional contact email. Please omit unnecessary personal or sensitive information.
- If a protected editor gateway is enabled, it may process an authorized editor's email, display name, authentication data, and editorial actions.
Purposes, sharing, and retention
Information is used to operate and secure the service, remember local preferences, answer and investigate corrections or privacy requests, maintain an editorial record, and meet legal obligations. StreetLens does not sell correction information. It may be processed by hosting, database, security, and basemap providers, including outside Canada, or disclosed when required by law. OpenFreeMap publishes its own privacy policy.
Optional correction email addresses are removed after 180 days, and correction submissions are removed after 730 days, unless a record is subject to a documented legal hold. Provider security logs follow the provider's configured retention. Browser local storage remains until you clear it or the app removes it.
Your choices and requests
You can deny geolocation, clear local storage in your browser, omit a correction email, and ask to access or correct personal information reasonably linked to you. Use the correction form and choose “Privacy or personal-information request,” or use the contact address below. Identity may need to be verified before personal information is disclosed.
Lawful, non-harmful use only.
By using StreetLens, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service. You may use it only lawfully and must not:
- attempt to reverse an approximate occurrence location into a specific address or identify a person connected with a report;
- use the service to target, harass, discriminate against, profile, or coordinate confrontation with any person, business, facility, or community;
- present StreetLens output as an official TPS or City determination, a probability of harm, or proof about a place or person;
- use it as the sole basis for a consequential housing, employment, insurance, credit, policing, legal, or personal-safety decision; or
- interfere with the service, bypass safeguards, or place unreasonable automated load on it.
No warranty
To the fullest extent permitted by law, StreetLens is provided “as is” and “as available,” without a promise of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, availability, fitness for a purpose, or error-free operation. Third-party data and services remain subject to their own terms.
Liability and governing law
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operator is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive loss arising from use of or inability to use StreetLens. Nothing here excludes a right or liability that cannot legally be excluded. These terms are governed by Ontario law and applicable Canadian law, without limiting any mandatory rights.
Material changes will be posted here with a new effective date.
Ask for another format or raise a concern.
StreetLens will work with users who request an accessible format or communication support. Send privacy, accessibility, legal, security, or correction concerns through the private correction form.