Alok Mukherjee, a former Police Services Board chair from 2005 to 2015, said that data released by Toronto police merely confirms what people of colour already know. The police released a 119-page case study of race data collected since 2020, under the force’s race-based data policy. It breaks down various statistics that highlight differences in the treatment of Black people versus white people. This includes the use of force and strip searches and a higher probability of Black people having a gun drawn on them. Mukherjee said data that evidenced systemic racial profiling practices was rejected in the past.

Source: thestar June 24, 2022 23:28 UTC