For the first time, the Toronto Police Service has publicly released a decade worth of detailed data on reports of intimate partner and family violence across the city.

The data set , dating back more than a decade, shows the annual number of reported incidents has remained relatively steady over the last decade, hovering between 17,000 and 19,000 each year — a trend experts attribute to a historic lack of collaboration and consistency from police services.

“Success looks like decreasing occurrences year-over-year — not steady-state numbers,” Harmy Mendoza, executive director of the Toronto-based WomanACT , a non-profit organization that aims to end gender-based violence, said on Thursday.

Police say the new data, broken down by neighbourhood, police division, month and day, will as

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