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Brad Hunter's 'Badge Gang' report puts Toronto police under the Sun's lens

A breakdown of Project South, the force's investigation into its own officers, moved on its own at about the pace the whole channel usually keeps in a day.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 102,520 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (8,962).

THE BADGE GANG: Project South targets Toronto cops accused of running crime, not stopping itTHE BADGE GANG: Project South targets Toronto cops accused of running crime, not stopping it

Who polices the police? In Toronto, according to the Sun's latest video, it is the police themselves. That question has given the newspaper's channel a rare start.

"THE BADGE GANG: Project South targets Toronto cops accused of running crime, not stopping it" passed about fifty thousand views within a day. That is roughly eleven times the pace a new Toronto Sun upload usually manages on its first day. On its own, it ran about as fast as the entire channel normally does across everything it has posted, on a day when the channel as a whole was a touch below its usual pace.

The guide is Brad Hunter, the Sun's longtime crime columnist. He walks through Project South, the Toronto Police Service's investigation into its own officers, who face allegations of extortion, bribery and drug trafficking. The title calls them accused, and the video names none of them there.

For a tabloid that has worked Toronto's crime beat for decades, it is a familiar subject with an unfamiliar set of suspects.

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The facts
Subscribers
288,000
Channel views, pace per day
100,693 (on a normal day: 108,689)
Video published
September 28, 2026
Video views so far
50,395 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
102,520

The numbers

The figures below show how far this first day ran ahead of a typical Toronto Sun debut.

the video's first day
usual first day here
8,962
this video
102,520
subscribers
288,000
total views
360,067,224
views per day
100,693
typical day: 108,689
the video
views
50,395
likes
328
comments
128
days online
1
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
FOX6 News Milwaukee
303,000
Toronto Sun
288,000
WREG News Channel 3
286,000
LOCAL 12
282,000
WPBF 25 News
254,000
NBC10 Philadelphia
225,000
As of September 29, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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