At the same time, the former Chief of the To- ronto Police Services commissioned research by Professor Harvey of the University of Toronto to contest the Star series, while the Toronto Police Association announced its intention to sue the Star for libel. [...] The first two chapters summarize developments contributing to the conflict between the Toronto Police and the African Canadian community, as well as the history of racial profiling and domestic law enforcement in the U. S., the U. K., and Canada. [...] This crisis may not be apparent to everyone, but is a daily reality for African Canadians (Shephard and Quinn, 2002; Essed, 2001; Smith and Lawson, 2002; Smith, 1997).11 The release of the Toronto Star series on racial profiling and the subsequent denials by the bureaucratic and political leadership of the police — including the Chief of Police, the Police Services Board, the Ontario Minister for [...] In Racist Discourse in Canada’s English Print Media, Frances Henry and Carol Tator argue that “[o]ne of the most important components of the ways in which crime is racialized is the over-reportage of crimes allegedly committed by people of colour and especially Blacks.” Providing a thorough analysis of this assertion, Henry and Tator examine the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Su [...] One can see the qualitative difference between the mandate and re- sults of the reports issued in the 1970s and ‘80s and the final report of the Ontario Commission on Systemic Racism in the Criminal Justice System.
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Table of Contents
- Conflict Crisis and Accountability 1
- Racial Profiling and Law Enforcement in Canada 1
- Introduction 7
- The Toronto Star Series 10
- Maher Arar Comes Home. 12
- What We Are Talking About 15
- In discussing contemporary Canadian experience Macklin says 19
- In Canadian jurisprudence racial profiling has been defined as 20
- The Crisis in Policing Toronto 23
- Background to the Current Crisis 25
- Studied to Death 28
- Race Relations Training 32
- Recruitment of a Diverse Police Force 34
- Community-Based Policing 36
- Political Oversight and Mechanisms for Police Complaints 39
- Inquiry Enforcement Statistics and Policies 43
- The Use of Police Force and Racism in Correctional Services 45
- Police Responses 47
- Community Advocacy and the Tactics of Confrontation 50
- Racial Profiling 55
- Then and Now 55
- The U.S. Experience 59
- Numbers Dont Lie Do They 64
- We Are What We Eat 71
- The U.K. Experience 74
- The Queen Is Not Amused 77
- The Numbers Across the Atlantic 83
- Metropolitan Police Authority and West Midlands 84
- Other Jurisdictions 86
- Cracks in the Roof Over Our Heads 87
- The Canadian Experience 90
- Moshers analysis focuses on the period between 1892 and 1961 a 94
- Whats Happening Brother 95
- Racial Profiling in Quebec 101
- Racial Profiling of Aboriginal Peoples 105
- Public Perceptions and the Media 111
- Thank God the Judge Was Awake Some of The Time 115
- Whats All the Fuss 119
- Borders and Exclusions 123
- Racism in Canadas Immigration and Refugee Laws The Social Context of a Notorious Fact 129
- Hunting for Terrorists and the Impact on Immigrant and Refugees 135
- Where it Hits Hard 139
- Charkaoui Almrei and Harkat 147
- The Arguments 149
- Conclusion 151
- 4 Maher Arar Returns 153
- Adopting Anti-Terrorism Legislation 155
- Arar Inquiry 157
- Was Arar Tortured 160
- Extraordinary Renditions 170
- Troubling Issues 173
- What To Do 177
- Performance and Accountability 177
- Recent Studies on Racial Profiling Data Collection 180
- Developing an Operational Definition of Racial Profiling 185
- CChinese DCambodian FFilipino GGuamanian HHispanic 194
- Current Racial Ethnic Profiling Data Collection Activities in the United Kingdom 198
- Analysis and Implications of the Research Moving Toward Transparency Accountability and Effectiveness 205
- Scope of Data Collection Activities 205
- Most use official police records 23 of a single municipal 10 or 206
- The Culture of Policing Organizational Rigidity or Flexibility 211
- Performance Development 214
- Organizational Policy as a Construct to Guide Change 217
- EducationTraining RecruitmentSelection and Enhancing Community Policing 223
- Accountability and Anti-racism Approaching Systemic Change 226
- Conclusion 6 237
- New airport-security rules may be here to stay Bonoguore 241
- Notes 245
- References 279
