Power maintains power in politicians’ reticence to overhaul policing

Trudeau thinks he can solve anti-Black racism by side-stepping police overhaul; his actions demonstrate his belief that economic measures will usurp the need for police accountability. He is so very wrong.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured in the Sir John A. Macdonald Building on March 19. While the Liberals pretend to make police reforms that they missed putting in the budget, they distract us with dalliances with police accountability that end up increasing police funding, such as the ruse of body cameras, writes Erica Ifill.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

April 28, 2021

OTTAWA—The Derek Chauvin conviction may not be the victory it's purported to be, given that within 24 hours of the verdict, police in America gunned down six Black people as a show ...

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