Under Suspicion

Through detailed first-person narratives, our report, Paying the price: The human cost of racial profiling, showed the severe and widespread impacts of profiling on racialized and Indigenous individuals and communities. [...] In Ontario today, many people are concerned about racial profiling in the form of police stop practices (including “street checks” or “carding”), police use of force, deaths at the hands of police, disproportionate use of segregation on Indigenous and Black prisoners, heightened scrutiny and surveillance of Muslims, Arabs and West Asian people in society (including at airports and border crossings [...] Through detailed first-person narratives, our report, Paying the price: The human cost of racial profiling,4 showed the severe and widespread impacts of profiling on racialized and Indigenous individuals and communities. [...] To develop this future policy guidance, we reviewed the case law13 and conducted a year-long consultation to understand more about: • The social and historical context of racial profiling • People’s experiences of racial profiling • How racial profiling should be defined _____________________________________ Ontario Human Rights Commission. [...] Consistent with the OHRC’s commitment to bring people’s lived experiences to the forefront of our work, the purpose of this report is to: • Report on the feedback we heard during the consultation • Provide Ontarians with a better understanding of the kinds of issues that may raise concerns about racial profiling across a variety of sectors • Present related social science and legal research from C