SOSC 2652 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Racial Profiling, Implicit Stereotype, Toronto Police Service
15 Nov 2018
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General background: criminal lawyer, defense lawyer in toronto, specializes in human rights, state accountability, law. Road map: race and policing and how it intersects in society and the cjs, bias, carding, profiling and it"s harm, how to fix it, how race exists in our courts here. Bias: injecting your own views, subjecting them into something. Overt bias demonstrating prejudice or bigotry they hold (explicit bias: racial slurs, treating someone a different way b/c race, religion, etc. , it does not actually exist in cjs but rather an implicit bias. Quote from court of peel on racism in policing, institutional and systemic racism and for. Racism, in particular, black racism subconsciously exists . Ir: not ethical but how power is maintained, how the line is drawn. Assuming and categorizing people based on a preconceived notion. Human rights tribunal code: similar to a court, includes policing (a service) In a car with brother driving in toronto.
