Race-based reporting for crime data could become mandatory for police, says cop, as group eyes boosting efforts by 2021

'What’s at stake here is human life, and in a systemic sense, the treatment of vulnerable groups and actually being able to embed equity in our society,' says York University professor Lorne Foster.

Innovation, Science, and Industry Minister Navdeep Bains, pictured March 20 with Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, will oversee Statistics Canada as the agency partners with the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police to beef up its efforts to collect race-based crime data. A July 15 announcement came with few details and no money linked to the initiative, though one officer hopes to have something in place by 2021.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PALAK MANGAT

July 22, 2020

Six years after police in Canada began reporting the Indigenous identity for victims and people accused of homicides to the country’s statistics agency, some officers are hoping to...

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