Sixty-nine people were killed by police in Canada last year, a record that continues a sharply rising trend in recent years, according to new research by the Tracking Injustice project.
Black and Indigenous communities have long been decrying the disproportionate police use of force on members of their communities — and “we only need turn on our TV to see the brutal, consistent murder of Black people that happens over and over and over again,” said Tanya L. Sharpe, an associate professor of social work at University of Toronto.“In the absence of data, if you don’t count it, then it doesn’t count,” Sharpe said.
Nearly three-quarters of the deaths are fatal shootings. The database does not provide the context of the deaths, including whether the person who died was armed at the time, but McClelland said those details, where available, will be included at a later date. The database includes high-profile cases of lethal police force against the perpetrators of mass killings, including, the man shot dead by York Regional Police after fatally shooting six people inside a Vaughan condo last December.
For nearly 10 years, Joanne McIsaac has been pushing all levels of government across Canada to start tracking police-involved deaths., was shot dead by a Durham Regional police officer shortly after he went outside naked on a frigid December day in 2013.
“I’m hoping that it’s going to clearly demonstrate the magnitude of the problem and hopefully force the government to stop dismissing it,” she said.
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