SOC323H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hollow-Point Bullet, Lawrence Heights, Encounter Killings By Police
14 Jan 2017
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Police car pulled up 4 young men in social housing neighborhood and asked disproportionately stopped in high crime areas and other areas where crimes sometimes occur. Todays readings very important for test read thoroughly. Hot issue race and policing in canadian context. Ottawa policing realized racial profiling individual suing for rp. So study was conducted african and middle eastern canadians were. He had right to ask why police officer didn"t like the fact hat these members. Desmond cole stopped more than 50 times even though he"s done nothing. This happened in lawrence heights in toronto. This is often known to happen in us but also happens here. Issues of race and policing not only prevalent in toronto downtown , also here in peel to violate the law. Jennifer evans reluctant to stop racial carding where exercising their rights. Man shot with hollow point bullet but they were illegal for police to have. Hosts of american scholars studying these issues.
