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this theory, because Saskatoon am absolutely astounded at police officers don’t ask about the lengths some folks in or record race or ethnicity when this town will go to in order conducting their checks. To do to scrape together a premise of so would be “an infringement on social injustice, and then rail someone’s human rights,” said against it. Chief Clive Weighill. We’ve already discussed the So, problem solved, right? Of Gormley Tweet Saga, which course not. still, incredibly, limps along, “We know the colour of the bolstered briefly by the occapeople you’re recording,” said sional, sudden burst of feigned the activist. outrage from some interest Columnist Well no, you don’t, and just group or another. because you say it doesn’t make In that same vein of an issue it reality. limping along, we have that of whether Who are the subjects of these checks? the Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) is They are people acting suspiciously in an participating in “profiling,” defined by area where criminal activity more commonthe American Civil Liberties Association ly occurs, also known as Saskatoon’s core. as the “discriminatory practice by law They are drug dealers, sex offenders, and enforcement officials of targeting indithose engaged in suspicious activity in high viduals for suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race, ethnicity, religion or crime neighbourhoods. Or as I like to call it, “police work.” national origin.” But what do I know? This one kicked off in August, when Instead, allow me to quote someone who the Globe and Mail released a story which does — retired Saskatoon police Sgt. Ernie included compiled data from police Louttit, a 26-year-veteran of the force and a forces across Canada on a tactic known Cree man. as “carding,” where a police officer stops “I know some people feel that they’re members of the public and asks to see their over-policed,” he told the CBC in August. ID. In Saskatoon in 2014, SPS officers performed 4,457 of these checks, which, ac- “But at the end of the day, when it comes to cording to the Globe and Mail, put us at the solving crime, that’s one of the most effechigher end of the range of Canadian cities. tive ways to do it.” Then he went on to say something that Cue the outrage among those insisting in my opinion, absolutely nails it. He said SPS is profiling Saskatoon’s indigenous that as a police officer, he didn’t see racial and marginalized residents. Such was the dialogue in October when about 40 people profiling in checks — what he saw was geographic profiling. turned up to protest “carding” outside an “If you’re in a high crime area, you’re SPS event. Chief Weighill actually left the bound to get checked by police,” he said. event briefly to address protestors, telling Yet last week Saskatoon Tribal Council them that his force would review policy. Chief Felix Thomas said that if Saskatoon The response? “I think it’s good that the police chief is police are conducting these checks in the responding to it, I’m just not sure this was core, they’d better be doing the same thing in the suburbs. the right space,” huffed one of the SaskaLet’s test that theory, shall we? toon protest’s organizers. Right. How dare According to the Saskatoon Police he respectfully address your concerns. In 2013, the Toronto Star ran a series on Service’s interactive Crime Map, between Dec. 7 and Dec. 13 in Riversdale (west the Toronto Police Service, after gatherof Idywyld, east of Avenue I South and ing a ton of data on the “contact cards” its officers had been filling out for years when between 17th and 22nd Streets West), there observing or checking on individuals in that were four reported thefts under $5,000; one Criminal Code traffic violation; two poscity. The Star piece was damning, especially session of stolen property calls; one assault; one drug/controlled substance call; one because it revealed that Toronto police officers had carded more young black men break and enter; two other Criminal Code than were actually recorded as living in that and one Traffic Safety Act call. That’s 13 city or, in other words, every single young reported Criminal Code offences. During that same time period, in Briblack man in Toronto, plus a bunch more, arwood – one. There was one theft under had been carded by Toronto police. $5,000. One. In a week. We know this because the contact card Pleasant Hill had 20 reported crimes; Toronto police officers were required to fill out included personal information such Willowgrove had two. Meadowgreen had 23 and Hampton Village three. as age and gender, as well as a physical I’m not saying this is right or wrong, or description, including skin colour. does or does not speak to any other number The Toronto story was followed by of social issues. What I am saying is Chief a roller coaster of policy and political Thomas’s suggestion may not be the most posturing. Police checks in that city were suspended completely in January 2014, and practical use of police resources. Police officers aren’t perfect. Has any reinstated with some amendments in the Saskatoon officer ever racially profiled summer of 2015. Here we are in December 2015, and Sas- an individual? Probably. But there is no katoon police checks are back on the front systemic, racist profiling going on here with page, apparently because a “community ac- these “checks,” which to me sound more tivist” is “concerned” that Saskatoon police like routine police work being manipulated, are targeting indigenous people when they squeezed and shoved into a much more do checks. Or so says the activist, anyway. socially unjust —and thereby newsworthy — frame. There’s absolutely no way to verify
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