Exploring Theme: "Systemic Racism in Policing"

Systemic reforms needed to hold SPVM accountable, victims and advocates say NEWSIness Rifay & Maria Cholakova  NationTalk: The Link – On July 22, at 3 a.m., two PhD Concordia students, Amaechi Okafor and Wade Paul, were walking home in the Notre-Dame-De-Grâce neighbourhood when they saw police cruisers on the road dealing with another case. In order to...

Montreal Gazette – Indigenous Peoples were two times more likely to be stopped in 2014, the report shows, they became six times more likely in 2017. The likelihood of an Indigenous woman being checked by officers was also found to be 11 times higher than a white woman. The researchers behind the report, mandated by...