The Star analysis shows race, age and gender are big factors in who gets stopped. Looking at blacks and whites of all ages, blacks are three times more likely to be stopped.
Male blacks aged 15-24 are stopped and documented 2.5 times more than white males the same age.
James Morton
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3 comments:
Hi James,
Perhaps using your knowledge, are people required to identify themselves when a police officer asks them to do so?
I listen to CFRB which dealt with the topic of race and police stops. One black man phoned in and stated that when he was going to school at Queen's University in Kingston, the police would ask him for ID. He finally went to the police chief and stated that this wasn't helping. In fact, it was hurting him and the community in general because he had a fear of the police.
There were other with the police and community relationships in that the police in Toronto would set up a basketball program in troubled neighbourhoods. However, the police did gather and record the names of the participants and kept on file.
When the police gather information from law-abiding citizens, if one of those citizens should happen to end up in court either as an accused or witness, the crown prosecutor may ask that person if he or she has been in any situations with the police. Yes, they have, but they may have not been arrested or charged.
Great stats in the article except for one that is missing: what proportion of the prison population is black?
The issues here are similar as to where should intensive security checks at airports be focused? Should it be on the general population or on the profile of known terrorist groups?
john - here's a thought. If there are more black men in prison, that might be because more of them are stopped and searched.
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