CRM 3322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Donald Marshall, Jr., Infant Mortality, Community Policing
11 Feb 2018
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Need for more involvement in planning and delivery of services. Increased need for aboriginal staff: more likely to be rejected because they are giving in to white man"s justice . Affirmative action hiring policies: hiring certain amount of aboriginals. Specialized units within large organization: certain forces focused on aboriginal policing. Some traditional practices allowed within mainstream programs. Problems originated in social historic conditions, perpetuated by the cjs. Drawn into the system: shorter life expectancy, higher infant mortality rates, higher #"s of dwellings w/out heat, less education, higher unemployment, higher rates of violent death, suicide. Alcohol single largest cause of cjs contact. Over representation begins with the police: decide who to survey, arrest, charge, such relations are fraught with distrust. Need for appropriate cultural training, for non- aboriginal police and representative on reserve. Over policing: excessive stopping, questioning, kept in custody and charging as a form of. Under policing harassment: police only come to communities to make arrest.
