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RSS Feeds`A historic step forward´: Toronto police board set to vote on making officers report race data on all stops
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

6 september 2019 17:52:53

 
`A historic step forward´: Toronto police board set to vote on making officers report race data on all stops
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


The Toronto police board is in the final stages of determining how and when officers will collect data about the race of citizens they stop, arrest and use force against — a move the Ontario Human Rights Commission is calling “a historic step forward.”“This really is a historic moment where we might actually see a board policy that mandates data collection across a broad range of police-civilian interactions,” Ontario human rights chief commissioner Renu Mandhane said in an interview this week. “That commitment I think is very important.”Once a highly divisive prospect, police across Canada have faced mounting pressure to document the race of the people in interactions ranging from traffic stops to searches to apprehensions. Recent reports examining police and community relations — including the OHRC’s 2018 inquiry into racial discrimination and the Toronto police — conclude police services must begin documenting race to measure, and counteract, racial discrimination and profiling.A draft policy expected to be presented to the Toronto police board later this month calls for officers to collect race-based data in a range of scenarios, including stops, searches, arrests and interactions involving police use of force. If passed, the policy would establish Toronto police as “a national leader in race-based data collection,” the OHRC said in a submission to the police board released this week.Currently, it is only mandatory that Toronto police collect and report race data in the context of the practice of carding. That came following provincial regulations that entered effect in 2017. The move to collect more demographic data is supported by community groups including the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, an organization that has for years been calling for more information on police interactions with citizens. Race-based data collection is also a recommendation of the Toronto Action Plan to Confr ...


 
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