Shut down. Cut down. Stolen by the dozens: Why Toronto is so fast and so furious about its speed cameras

Somewhere right now, in the city of Toronto — in a garage, a basement or a dusty shed — likely sits the decapitated husk of a speed camera.

Or maybe there are 12 of them, piled up. The spoils of theft and vandalism. Victims in a culture war that’s hit the side streets of Canada’s biggest city.

This has been the summer of the speed camera.