Shawna Coxon, right, looks on as former Toronto councillor David Soknacki asks a question at the policing consultation goes on at Ryerson University. Members of the task force aiming to modernize policing in the city were schooled Wednesday in the ways policing could be improved and made more efficient, by the experts who spend their days tackling the big issues now dogging Toronto police and the city. Three months after unveiling an ambitious draft plan to overhaul policing in the city, the so-called Toronto police Transformational Task Force held a day-long consultation with academics and researchers specializing in crime and policing at Ryerson University. Article Continued Below“The police just don’t think that we’re the experts — there are lots of other stakeholders out there that have a lot to contribute,” said Toronto police Insp. Shawna Coxon, a fellow member of the task force.

Source: thestar September 29, 2016 02:03 UTC