RCMP officers have pointed guns at individuals more than 5,000 times over the past three years. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police today released a use-of-force breakdown that shows the use of firearms is the RCMP's most common recorded intervention tactic. "Overall, there was a 29 per cent decline in the rate of intervention being applied from 2010 to 2019, with 2019 marking the lowest rate of intervention over a ten-year period." According to RCMP records, between 2017 and 2019 Mounties pointed their firearms at people 5,441 times and brandished them 3,062 times as a deterrent. The RCMP's officer response reports don't capture a subject's ethnicity, so there's nothing here to indicate how many times police intervention has been used on minority Canadians.

Source: CBC News June 17, 2020 18:05 UTC