What do we gain by including race on Alberta driver’s license?
RIMA AZAR: Identifying Canadians by race on their everyday documents is divisive and discriminatory
Tag: Police
The huge challenge of holding police accountable
ANIL ANAND: Too many officers across the U.S. have used excessive force. Too many have been complicit by failing to intervene during their colleagues’ misconduct (FREE)
Media’s misguided agendas lead to social unrest
BRIAN GIESBRECHT: Reporting on the George Floyd and Colten Boushie deaths twisted the facts to meet the agendas of mainstream media (FREE)
We’re too quick to condemn policing and its officers
ANIL ANAND: The ugly realities of humanity that we would rather believe belong in someone else’s world are the realities police officers encounter daily
The war on drugs is costly and off-target
ANIL ANAND: A report on drug abuse released by police chiefs is less about reducing drug abuse and more about protecting police budgets and jobs
Race-based police data won’t end systemic issues
ANIL ANAND: Examining use of force by race or counting arrests and charges by colour isn’t about to change police culture
Forensic anthropologist helps police identify unknown victims
CRIME: For Pamela Mayne Correia, the most satisfying cases are the ones she helps solve with the scarcest of skeletal remains
Canada is not a racist country, nor are its institutions
BRIAN GIESBRECHT: People want to live here because Canada is a welcoming country where all races and creeds live together without persecution
The overblown panic of COVID-19
MARCO NAVARRO-GENIE: We trampled, in fear, over memory and institutions, obsessively protective and morally dismissive of dignity and human life
Police failures begin with bad leadership
ANIL ANAND: Policing, despite its facade of altruism and professionalism, remains incredibly insular, self-promoting and conservative
Defunding police requires understanding the role of policing
TEMITOPE ORIOLA: Demystifying police work is needed to increase public support for major reforms, argues U of A sociologist
Bad leadership at the heart of police brutality
ANIL ANAND: There’s no place for cowards, racists, sociopaths or murderers in a police department. And yet such officers are detected with alarming regularity
What an Indigenous force can teach us about policing
DOUG FIRBY: Adding more weapons, equipment and officers doesn’t provide a straight line to happier and safer communities (FREE)
Racist cop shows, biased news fuel public fears of crime
TIMOTHY CAULFIELD: Portrayals of violent crime in pop culture and media are skewing people’s perception of how likely it is to happen to them, says U of A expert
Why Canada’s gun ban won’t stop shootings
PAZ GOMEZ: Addressing the more complex problems of narcotics, smuggling, and terrorism will yield more effective and durable results
Half measures won’t solve the problem with police
DOUG FIRBY: It’s time to reduce funding to police and reallocate those dollars to more proactive ways to reduce crime (FREE membership content)
Defunding police a movement whose time has come
NOAH CASTELO: Reallocating some police funding to social workers, making body cameras mandatory would cut unnecessary violence
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