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Re: Why is there a Black Lives Matter movement in Canada?Because in Canada we also have a substantial problem with the police killing unarmed people of colour.We have an even more substantial problem with police targeting people of colour for random street harassment. Despite the howls of denial about this going back decades, once we started keeping stats about random police stops, surprise!, turns out that they are not so random after all.We can and should do better.Some have asked for backup for my assertions.Let’s start with looking at the chances of interacting with police. Here’s a good overview by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association: A Recent History of Racial Profiling and Policing ‹ Canadian Civil Liberties AssociationTurning to How many black men have been killed by Toronto police? We can’t know | Toronto Star,The Toronto Police Service keeps statistics about use-of-force incidents, makes them publicly available and presents them to the Toronto Police Services Board, spokesman Mark Pugash said. But the person’s racial background is not recorded in those statistics.Last month, the Star requested from the SIU every fatal shooting incident involving police since 1990, when the agency was founded. The list contained only the dates of fatal police-involved shootings and excluded incidents where someone committed suicide with a gun in the presence of police.The Star cross-referenced the dates with news archives and SIU news releases to identify the person killed and, wherever possible, their racial background.The analysis shows that, of the 51 fatal shootings involving the Toronto police, at least 18 involved black men, representing 35 per cent of fatal police shootings. Toronto’s black population is roughly 9 per cent.In other words, police shooting of black men is happening at roughly 4 times the rate expected.On a completely unsurprising note, this is not dissimilar to the rate at which people of colour are arbitrarily searched: Blacks three times more likely to be carded by Peel police than whites | Toronto StarTurning to more scholarly works, the U of T criminologist Scott Whortly published a paper based on extensive research of the SIU files (see https://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/inquiries/ipperwash/policy_part/projects/pdf/AfricanCanadianClinicIpperwashProject_SIUStudybyScotWortley.pdf for the paper).In 2006, Wortley conducted an independent review of SIU data on behalf of the African Canadian Legal Clinic for its contribution to the Ipperwash Inquiry, which probed the OPP shooting death of unarmed First Nations protester Dudley George.A researcher from Wortley’s team gained security clearance to parts of the SIU’s case files not normally publicly available, including the director’s report and case photographs, for all SIU files completed between January 2000 and June 2006.Using that information, combined with media reports, Wortley and his team identified the racial background of the subject of an SIU investigation in 84 per cent of the cases.The data showed that in Ontario, First Nations people and African Canadians “are greatly over-represented in police use of force incidents” compared to their percentage of the population.Examining only fatal police-involved shootings in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area, Wortley found that eight of 12 shootings during that time involved black people — representing 66 per cent of Toronto police shootings during that time period, though black residents represented only 6.7 per cent of the population.“Hopefully, this data can close the debate over whether aboriginal and black residents are more exposed to police use of force than white people. They are,” Wortley wrote in the report.I believe that my assertion is adequately supported.

Back in the mid-70s, it seemed like about a third of Canadian coppers were from the UK. The father of a buddy of mine did his national service as an MP in the British Army and the another 15 as a member of the Met in London before deciding to emigrate. He sent out applications to police services in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Canada responded first so he came to Toronto where he promptly ran into another former Bobby, who told him that the Toronto Township Police (now Peel Regional Police) were hiring. He was hired on the spot but was still required to attend the Ontario Police College as if he were a new recruit. He served another 25 years with Peel Police.