Tag: Policing
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Cut Police Budgets: Police Violence Reached an All-Time High Last Year
The year 2022 was the deadliest year on record in the United States for fatalities at the hands of law enforcement. According to the Washington Post’s police shootings database, law … Keep reading »
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More Cops? Not What Our Communities Need
Listening to Chief Myron Demkiw’s pitch for the 2023 budget request to the Toronto Police Services Board (TPS), it sounded like the rationale for the budgets put together by school … Keep reading »
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Policing the Poor and Minorities as Counter-Insurgency
The Minneapolis City Council’s attempt to defund police may have fizzled out for the moment, but the problem of police violence across the United States is unresolved – and much … Keep reading »
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Three Measures Against Racist Policing
As protests against police brutality and racism drive policy shifts around the nation, which changes can actually bring sustained long-term improvements? Keep reading »
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Public Transit, Fares and Policing in Toronto: Riders Groups Respond
Oppose the Return to Fare Enforcement on the TTC Free Transit Toronto In Toronto, Jane Finch Action Against Poverty (JFAAP) has long made the link between transit fare enforcement and racism. TTCriders … Keep reading »
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All Out: Policing, Racism and Our Collective Response
The recent murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis is the latest in a series of criminal acts by police departments against black people in the US, and it echoes the … Keep reading »
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Police Violence and Liberal Politicians’ Spending
George Floyd’s death proves again why America needs to defund bloated and militarized police departments. Keep reading »
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The Myth of State Neutrality
Police Violence, Labour, and the Unifor/Co-op Struggle We are taught at a very early age and socialized throughout our lives to respect and obey the rule of law. British Columbia Premier … Keep reading »
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The Militarization of Policing
Defending the Movements, Challenging the Police Lesley J. Wood Interviewed by Greg Albo After the killing of Michael Brown in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri in the late summer of 2014, protests … Keep reading »
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Police Carding Regulations Amount to Putting Lipstick on a Pig
The Network for the Elimination of Police Violence (NEPV) rejects the call from the Government of Ontario to retain carding by regulating the practice. Carding is a street harassment practice … Keep reading »