Posted on 07/28/2020 9:02:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
“There has been in this province a history of systemic racism, and we have to do better,” [Mayor] Savage said at the time.
“This announcement sends a positive message,” said Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, a sociology professor at the University of Toronto. “I have no doubt that what we call defunding of police … will take hold in Canada.”
That money will be spent on housing, social services and a safety task force.
In the same vein, police should not be expanding their duties to include what the military is trained to do, because it transforms peace officers into soldiers who see members of the public as enemy combatants, he said.
“Poor, Black and Indigenous people then become the enemies in the war on drugs. It further entrenches the problems of racial injustice,” Owusu-Bempah said. “(Police) feel like they’re in battle, as opposed to serving a community.”
Kevin Walby, an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Winnipeg, said there’s more to militarization than the purchase of armoured vehicles, automatic weapons and tactical gear.
“And they even assign SWAT team members to do mental-health checks.”
Walby said he has been tracking a more insidious form of militarization known as “community policing.”
It involves teams of officers fanning out in neighbourhoods to ask residents questions about their safety concerns and problems with their neighbours. The information is later used to compile detailed community profiles.
Though it may sound like a tame, feel-good strategy, Walby said community policing is anything but.
“Community policing has morphed into this kind of intelligence-gathering activity,” he said. “The militaries in Afghanistan and Iraq used community policing models to … collect intelligence and feed it back into military operations. Canadian police are now using the very same tactic.”
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“..Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, a sociology professor at the University of Toronto”.
These six words tell me everything I need to know about University of Toronto
Remind me of all those famous people who have said they will move to Canada.........are they secret racists?
[Mayor] Savage said at the time.
Right after he asked are the cameras on
Appears so many want their 15 minutes of fame now.
Do the Canadian liberals just ape anything US liberals do?
Canada is a horribly racist country.
Another example of why Canada is the world’s #1 underachieving nation. They have embraced every bad idea the US and Great Britain ever had and made them worse.
Apparently the First Nations(you know those peaceful Indians) as well as the Europeans had slaves but the practice, at least among those of European descent seems to have been ended in the 1760’s. At least from what I quickly read.
Especially Alberta, we can’t stand anything east of the east Manitoba border.
“Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, a sociology professor at the University of Toronto”
An authority that us stupid white people need to bend a knee to.
Set aside some of that “saved money” to help crime victims with medical bills, property recovery and funeral expenses.
The police, namely the RCMP, are a problem in Canada, but not for the reasons stated. The RCMP has long been the official arm of the Liberal Party. For election abuses the Conservative offices get raided within days. Liberal election abuses? Nothing happens. The RCMP is also famous for its raid in High River, Alberta where they used the flood to grab guns from lawful residents. The RCMP also shot down a man in Nanaimo in cold blood and nothing came of it.
The RCMP is a law unto itself. They are accountable to no agency, only the Parliament, which is too cumbersome to over see their activities.
From time to time the RCMP creates instant criminals by classifying what once were legal guns as no longer legal.
LOL - and I say the same thing about every white country, since only whites can be racist and when you have a multi-ethnic society, one of the groups must be racist...hence, always the whites.
(how we’re viewed by the Left)
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