Fears of looming totalitarianism are unfounded, despite some valid concerns about new COVID-19 laws.
A woman waits for a streetcar in Toronto on April 16, 2020. The many Black people working in essential jobs do not have the luxury of staying home during the pandemic.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
With officers being hit by illness, arrests have dropped during the coronavirus crisis. Meanwhile crime rates have remained static, or even fallen. Is it time to rethink policing?
We need any new laws on what we can and can’t do to be clear to all, applied consistently and transparently, which is not the case at the moment.
Caroline Flack leaving Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court where she plead not guilty to assaulting boyfriend Lewis Burton.
Jonathan Brady/PA Wire/PA Images
It is important that police forces and the CPS are able to recognise that coercive control and couple violence are different and require different handling.
President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Jan. 28 in Wildwood, New Jersey.
AP Photo/Mel Evans
In a survey, Trump supporters showed the lowest faith in the Supreme Court, the federal government, the media and other pillars of society.
Members of the RCMP look on as supporters of the Wet'suwet'en Nation block a road outside of RCMP headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on Jan. 16, 2020.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Police should take a wider view to join the dots that link the networks behind slavery and drugs.
Although surveillance technologies appear to be race-neutral, modern police surveillance technologies do not operate outside racial bias.
(ShotSpotter)
Recruiting 20,000 new police officers may sound like a massive boost, but the reality is that the Conservative’s proposal will simply replace the 20,600 police officers who have already been cut.
A 2012 training session between two New York police officers demonstrated a way stop-and-frisk encounters could be handled.
AP Photo/Colleen Long
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized for his city’s ‘stop-and-frisk’ police strategy. Two criminologists argue it isn’t necessarily inherently racist – though New York’s program was.
Police say surrender is the only option for the hundreds of protesters occupying Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University.
Fazry Ismail/EPA
After months of respecting the boundaries of university campuses, the Hong Kong police moved in to make arrests. Now, protesters are defending what had once been sanctified spaces.