Racial Profiling

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This paper reviews the on-going debate over whether or not Toronto police department engages in racial profiling. As the paper makes clear, there is no unambiguous and irrefutable proof that the nation largest police department is systematically oppressing African Canadians or anyone else. At the same time, however, the paper presents the view that there is evidence that the police service can be more sensitive to its non-white population.

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"Racial Profiling and the Toronto Police Department: Is it still "alive and kicking" in Canada's largest city? It has often been argued that Toronto's police force, for all of its estimable qualities, has too often engaged in racial profiling. The following paper will review what racial profiling is, whether or not Toronto's police department is actively engaged in it, and what the effects of racial profiling - or even the appearance of racial profiling - are upon relations between Toronto's police department and the city's sizable African-American community. As the following paper shall hopefully make clear, there is some evidence available to suggest that Toronto's police force engages in racial profiling - although whether this is done as maliciously or as indiscriminately as some would lead the public to believe is an entirely different matter. "

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