Exploring Theme: "Systemic Racism in Policing"

Kent Roach is a professor of law at the University of Toronto and is the author of Canadian Policing: Why and How it Must Change. The Globe and Mail: Between late August and early November, nine Indigenous men and one Indigenous woman died at the hands of police in Canada. Despite an emergency debate in Parliament and calls...

Toronto Star: When is this going to stop? Two weeks ago the Calgary Police Service revealed that three of its members are under investigation by an outside agency for their treatment of an Indigenous man — Jon Wells — who died in a well-appointed hotel lobby. This was the ninth such death across Canada in...

Sister says Tammy ‘always in good spirits’ but struggled in life. School photos of Tammy Bateman. Photos courtesy Lori Bateman APTN News: A Winnipeg woman says the loss of her little sister was made even more traumatic by the way the family found out about her passing. Now Lori Bateman is looking for an apology...

Robert Jeffrey Morden pleaded not guilty to criminal negligence last year in death of Headingley inmate WARNING: This story contains disturbing details. CBC Indigenous: A Manitoba corrections officer charged in the 2021 death of an inmate at the Headingley Correctional Centre has been acquitted of all charges. Robert Jeffrey Morden pleaded not guilty to criminal...

Southern Chiefs Organization (SCO) – “Only 53% of murder cases involving [Indigenous] women and girls have led to charges of homicide. This is dramatically different from the national clearance rate for homicides in Canada, which was last reported as 84%” (NWAC, 2011). Governments and Canadian institutions now need to fully implement the Calls for Justice....

Aug. 9, 2021: Southern Chiefs Organization – Released a new report on First Nation experiences of racism when dealing with police services across Manitoba: “SCO’s First Nation Experiences of Racism in Policing Survey” “A majority of our citizens face racism, and even violence and intimidation, when interacting with police officers that are meant to serve...

MacDonald-Laurier Institute – “Systemic racism in policing in Canada and approaches to fixing it,” argues that the fault for this lies primarily with political leaders who set the framework conditions and constraints for the delivery of police services. This commentary is based on the author’s written submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on...

The CBC “Deadly Force” database indicates that the RCMP are 3x more likely to use lethal force than other police forces in Canada. The CBC data found that 68 per cent of people killed in police encounters were suffering with some kind of mental illness, addiction or both. “When we get broader statistical information that...