30 years since oversight bodies, police accountability remains an issue

 By Susan Rabichuk and Lisa Deveau We have been indoctrinated not to question the police. Adequate police oversight and accountability is long overdue. Officers swear an Oath to uphold fundamental human rights and equal respect, but what happens when officers, including the chief, abuse their power, or, in the case of the

A lack of police accountability and oversight is the sole reason for public anger

 This past weekend demonstrations across Canada by various groups and individuals demanding that governments defund police result from the lack of police accountability in Canada. Police violence has reached such an unacceptable level in this country that it has undermined people’s trust and confidence in our criminal justice system. Although the term

Police investigating police result in no consequences

 There is no doubt that one of the major catalysts behind the calls to defund the police has to do with the blatant ineffectiveness of police oversight agencies in this province and across Canada. If these agencies actually did what they are supposed to do and that is conduct unbiased

Police wrongdoing on rise, changes needed now

 There are no easy answers to explain why a Toronto police officer shot a knife-wielding 18-year-old who posed no public threat nine times, but it does raise a red flag that something is seriously wrong with the way police deal with crisis situations. By Darryl T. Davies It would be