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Originally Posted by JHikka

Camden gives us a good idea:



https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/what-happened-to-crime-in-camden/549542/

A lot of it is simply cutting away the fat that's built up over decades in our PDs. Canadian PDs don't suffer from these issues as much as our southern neighbours but, much like racism, we still have strides to make and steps to take forward to become better.

Canada has some unique problems with policing. We have to be carefull we are address those problems and not trying to copy solutions form the US that area geared around solving issues the US has. CNN had some interesting stats:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/us/us-police-floyd-protests-country-comparisons-intl/index.html

Deaths in Custody
US: 12 per 100,000
Australia: 5 per 100,000
UK: 2 per 100,000

People in Jail:
US: 655 per 100,000
Canada: 114 per 100,000
the rest of the G8 is similar to Canada.

Blacks in Jail:
US: 33% of prisons while only 12% of population
Canada: 9% of prisoners while only 4% of population

Perhaps some of it is how policing is done.

At the federal level (both in Canada and the US) that are multiple special types of police that focus only in specific area. Those don't appear to be the problem. So maybe we need more of that and less of the general purpose police office that one time is dealing with counter fit bill, the next time its murder or burglary to someone speeding.

One of the common issues raised by the black community in the various news articles are randomly being pulled over by the police because they don't match someone stereotype. Perhaps shift responsibility for traffic violations to bylaw like officers that have that as their sole mandate. At that point they have no reason to pull anyone over for any reason other that how they drive their vehicle.

The catalyst for all of this is a counterfeit $20 bill. Why in the world is anyone being arrest for that in the first place.