CRIM 2652 Study Guide - Racial Profiling, Toronto Star, Intermediate Scrutiny
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Policing iii: current trends november 21st: race and the community, critiques of professional law enforcement model, emergence and development of community policing and other models. 2002: toronto star series: simple drug possession and traffic violations, focus on discretionary actions of police. Results showed clear pattern of racial difference in patterns of arrest. Libel suit launched by police association against the toronto star law suit was dismissed by the supreme court. Found that blacks were disproportionately arrested than whites. I don"t think a day will come, in my lifetime, when i won"t be profiled or identified for who i am, and what i am. j. burke, 28 years old, toronto. It is a fact of life that police are harsher in their enforcement of the law with blacks. I have been stopped, because i looked suspicious," or we have reports of auto thefts in the area, and you match the description. " w. ward, toronto.
