Who cares about how it sounds if it doesn't convey your message? 'Reallocate Police Funds' sounds fine and its more clear as to what you want. Also hearing about what some protesters want and I hope its just some, they keep talking about literally getting rid of police forces and prisons instead of reforming them. Now that's just plain DUMB.
I don't believe anything this organisation puts out because its literally the most corrupt, biased, unfair, unbalance, narrative driven organisation EVER. What a colossal waste of taxpayer money to have this POS organization exist. Maybe a long time ago it might've served a purpose, but now all it ever does is release information and studies that never tell the whole story and ignore any facts and statistics that might explain the outcomes that they find. You'd be better off abolishing this useless department and redirected the funds to help at risk communities and it would actually benefit those people more than whatever pointless crap the OHRC put out to justify its existence.
So pretty much all this supports the fact that black people in the GTA are far more violent and criminal than anyone else, which leads to more police interactions and considering these are violent criminals, I seriously doubt they like cooperating with police in a peaceful manner which means they're more likely to have violent interactions with police. Seems pretty simple and doesn't look to have much to do with racism or one race/ethnic group of people being treated better than any other simply based on skin color.
What kind of criminal record are we talking about? I seriously doubt that there are more white people with violent criminal records especially to do with guns than black people having violent criminal records where violent crimes and murder are involved.
In Toronto in 2014 they had 177 shootings for the ENTIRE YEAR.
In 2019 they had a historic record setting 490 shootings and this year Toronto is 33 shootings AHEAD OF YEAR'S PACE. I think everyone knows who's committing the vast majority of shootings here so I would love to see how many black criminals have a record with violent crimes involved in comparison to white people and I bet it will be much higher. I think that matters more than simply saying 'more white people have a criminal record'.
But how can we definitively say this is 100% race related and not have other factors be involved? Also take a look here where out of 461 fatal encounters with police in Canada between 2000-2017 only 43 or so people killed by police were black. So 43 deaths of black people in 17 years for ALL of Canada where 10 of them were unarmed. For Toronto specifically its 19 black people killed by Toronto police over 17 years.
That's not nothing, but that's pretty damn far from being an epidemic don't you think?
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/long...m/deadly-force
In Toronto/GTA there's definitely more than 19 black people being murdered here every single year and yet somehow that's seen as a low priority problem that groups like BLM don't think is worth their time and can't get even a fraction of the protests and attention that supposed rampant police brutality and killing of black people do.
BLM had a protest today against police brutality and 'anti-black racism' even as less than 12 hours ago there were 3 shootings in the city including ever increasing numbers of drive-by shootings and highway shootings yet somehow police brutality and supposed racism against them is the biggest problem black people need to deal with right now?
They literally just arrested
three16 year old boys that tried to murder two people and THAT'S not a problem they should be tackling first?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...rant-1.5703190
More shootings than ever and more underaged kids who haven't even reached adulthood who are committing serious violent crimes and murders and they think police and racism are the problem??!
I agree. I would be in favor of having some mental health professionals be available to handle mental health calls so that police don't have to do it.