Ontario Human Rights Commission

concern that some certainly have, and this is a reality for a lot of people within our city.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission has found that Black people in particular, but other marginalized groups as well, due to the fact of systemic racial discrimination, racial profiling, anti-Black racism... feel less safe when they see police officers in town and at different places like the TTC.

So under your plan, what would you say to them to say that you are still going to be safe despite those

findings? Look, there's always...

Toronto.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission looked at police data from 2013 to 2017.

A Black person was nearly 20 times more likely than a white person to be involved in a fatal shooting by the TPS.

Black people were under 9% of the city and 70% of the people Toronto police shot and killed.

Can you tell us the backstory here?

Absolutely yeah it was in 2006 when Toronto police officers started wearing their name tags as a part of their uniform prior to that they would display what's called either a regimental or a badge number I think it's very important to go back to the history of Toronto police between the 1970s and the 1990s, as well as other elements of the criminal legal system in Toronto, where we had things like the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Lewis Report, some judicial inquiries that found that there was significant mistrust, particularly among members of the Black community and Toronto.

tensions between the Black community and Toronto Police in relation to a series of killings that resulted in 1990 and the inception of the SIU and then later Toronto Police adopting this uniform policy of ensuring that their officers would be known by name.

You could tell us a little bit more about what happened at the G20.