now THIS is an impressive piece of propaganda. How am I conflating two things if cops courts and prisons are all part of the same corrupt system? And your blanket statement "anyone who doesn't think like me is automatically wrong" lmao. 'the left' is really just another word for educated people that recognize our colonial roots is still evident in our power structures.
You're thinking too small. The structure of society itself has had racist and white supremacist roots from the very founding of our respective policing forces. In 'murica, they were formed to round up runaway slaves. Canada's NWMP was basically a military force formed to colonialize the native population and crush any resistance. Today our prisons overrepresent them to an insane degree. Indigenous women make up 32% of the federal prison population while being less than 5% total pop. -,Indigenous%20women%20now%20account%20for%20almost%20half%20of%20the%20female,cent%20of%20the%20total%20population.)
Indiginous youth even worse. "In 2016-2017, Indigenous youth (12 to 17 years) accounted for 8 percent of all youth in the provinces and territories (Department of Justice Canada 2018a).Footnote10 However, in 2016-2017 they accounted for a much higher proportion of young people admitted to the corrections system: 46 percent"
It's obvious they're being policed more heavily with less leniency.
[And about police use of force.
The CBC set out to compile a database of every person who died or was killed during a police intervention from 2000 to the end of 2017. Researchers gathered information on race and ethnicity from a variety of sources and found Black and Indigenous people were severely overrepresented.
In Winnipeg, for example, Indigenous people made up about 10.6 per cent of the city’s population in that period. But more than 60 per cent of the people who died in police encounters were Indigenous. (In April, Winnipeg police officers shot and killed three Indigenous people in10 days.)
In Toronto, Black people accounted for 37 per cent of victims. They make up slightly more than eight per cent of the population.
Other reports have shown similar patterns. In November 2019, the Globe and Mail reported that between 2007 and 2017 more than one-third of people shot to death by the RCMP were Indigenous. Indigenous people make up less than five per cent of the population.
And according to a study by the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Black Torontonians are 20 times more likely to be shot by police than the city’s white residents.
now THIS is an impressive piece of propaganda. How am I conflating two things if cops courts and prisons are all part of the same corrupt system? And your blanket statement "anyone who doesn't think like me is automatically wrong" lmao. 'the left' is really just another word for educated people that recognize our colonial roots is still evident in our power structures. You're thinking too small. The structure of society itself has had racist and white supremacist roots from the very founding of our respective policing forces. In 'murica, they were formed to round up runaway slaves. Canada's NWMP was basically a military force formed to colonialize the native population and crush any resistance. Today our prisons overrepresent them to an insane degree. Indigenous women make up 32% of the federal prison population while being less than 5% total pop. -,Indigenous%20women%20now%20account%20for%20almost%20half%20of%20the%20female,cent%20of%20the%20total%20population.)
Indiginous youth even worse. "In 2016-2017, Indigenous youth (12 to 17 years) accounted for 8 percent of all youth in the provinces and territories (Department of Justice Canada 2018a).Footnote10 However, in 2016-2017 they accounted for a much higher proportion of young people admitted to the corrections system: 46 percent"
It's obvious they're being policed more heavily with less leniency.
[And about police use of force. The CBC set out to compile a database of every person who died or was killed during a police intervention from 2000 to the end of 2017. Researchers gathered information on race and ethnicity from a variety of sources and found Black and Indigenous people were severely overrepresented.
In Winnipeg, for example, Indigenous people made up about 10.6 per cent of the city’s population in that period. But more than 60 per cent of the people who died in police encounters were Indigenous. (In April, Winnipeg police officers shot and killed three Indigenous people in10 days.)
In Toronto, Black people accounted for 37 per cent of victims. They make up slightly more than eight per cent of the population.
Other reports have shown similar patterns. In November 2019, the Globe and Mail reported that between 2007 and 2017 more than one-third of people shot to death by the RCMP were Indigenous. Indigenous people make up less than five per cent of the population.
And according to a study by the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Black Torontonians are 20 times more likely to be shot by police than the city’s white residents.
Last week Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old Black woman, died after her mother called Toronto police and asked them to take her daughter to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. During her encounter, Korchinski-Paquet fell from a 24th-floor apartment balcony. Korchinski-Paquet’s family members said that before she fell, she was calling to her mother for help. The incident is being investigated by Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit. ](https://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/public-interest-inquiry-racial-profiling-and-discrimination-toronto-police-service/collective-impact-interim-report-inquiry-racial-profiling-and-racial-discrimination-black#Executive%20summary) Oh and as an added bonus why don't you read up on Starlight Tours? Police in Sakatoon would pick up indigenous poeple in the middle of the night, middle of winter - and then drive them miles and miles out to city bounds and abandon them to the cold.