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Jun 2022
23m 39s

Toronto police more likely to use force ...

CBC
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Toronto police are more likely to use force against people of colour, especially Black residents, according to race-based data released this week. The internal data on use of force and strip searches from 2020 also showed Indigenous people were, proportionally, more likely than any other racial group to be strip-searched after being arrested. Some academic ... Show More
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