The day the data was released, Toronto Police Chief James Ramer apologized “unreservedly” for what he said amounted to “systematic discrimination.” ![]() Strip searches were also determined to have been used in a manner that disproportionately targets racialized people. However, when it came to calls for a person in crisis Indigenous people were 1.4 times more likely to face force than their share of the population would suggest. Indigenous people were also overrepresented in enforcement actions by a factor of 1.5, but were slightly underrepresented in the use of force statistics overall. The statistics also showed that Black people were 2.2 times more likely to be subjected to enforcement actions in the first place and that the level of force police deployed against them tended to be more severe.įurther, it found other racialized groups like Latino, Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian people were overrepresented in many statistics when it came to the use of force. They revealed Black people were over-represented in use of force incidents compared to their share of total enforcement actions by a factor of 1.6 in 2020. ![]() Toronto police will be holding several community town halls throughout the city over the next six months to discuss the findings of the service’s first-ever Race-Based Data Collection Strategy.īased on analysis of data collected in 2020 of officers’ perceptions of an individual’s race in use-of-force and strip searches, the findings were initially released to the public last June.
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