The classic right-wing trope of "professional activists", as though somehow if enough people are aggravated by something, a large portion are somehow getting paid for it. Aside from the fact you're starting with an assumption of impropriety, you're showing a disbelief in the existence of actual, literal outrage in a community.
Attempting?
In Toronto, a black man is 20x more likely to be killed by police than a white man. <10% of the population, but 70% of police shooting deaths. That's not anywhere close to being a statistical anomaly, that shows a clear, intentional pattern.
For the record, while the data is sketchy on the city level, the U.S. Average is a black man is 2.5x more likely to be killed by police:
Police violence is a leading cause of death for young men in the United States. Over the life course, about 1 in every 1,000 black men can expect to be killed by police. Risk of being killed by police peaks between the ages of 20 y and 35 y for men and women and for all racial and ethnic groups...
www.pnas.org
So you're right, it's not the same as the U.S. Our city is worse than the U.S. average.
You are I are broadly on the same side of this issue. But you're over-reaching here.
Lets compare the 2 sets of national statistics for a start.
CTV looked at the last 100 cases of police-involved death for which suicide was not the deemed cause, from 2017.
As noted at the bottom, due to omitted data these stats may look a tad better/worse (people are just as dead)
But overall, there findings were:
Based on census demographic data from 2016, the 25 Indigenous deaths represent a rate of 1.5 out of every 100,000 Indigenous Canadians being shot and killed by police, and the six Black deaths represent a rate of 0.5 out of every 100,000.
Both those numbers are well above the overall Canadian rate of being shot and killed by police, which is 0.3 per 100,000 and far higher than the rate for white Canadians, which is 0.13 per 100,000.
This would make for an Indigenous person being 5x more likely than a white person to be shot by police; and a Black person being 1.6x more likely to be shot.
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Going over to the CBC's 'Deadly Force' page which is active an interactive, searchable database up to 2018.
We find that Toronto Police shot exactly zero people of any colour in 2018, and zero in 2017, 5 in 2016, 4 in 2015
My review of the pictures associated w/said deaths would suggest:
In 2016, of the 5 people shot by police one may be Black, 3 clearly White, one Hispanic
in 2015, 2 were Black, 1 has no photo, 1 Hispanic.
Lets now compare to our closest size U.S. counterpart.
Chicago:
According to this article:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/inve...ice-shooting-database-met-20160826-story.html
Over a six year period ending 2015, Chicago PD had shot and killed 92 people. Or an average of just over 15 per year.
I compared the numbers for the same years in Toronto, we totaled 21, or 3.5 per year.
But in the 3 years from 2016-2018 we totaled 5. Or 1.6 per year
That's not to say for one moment we can't, and shouldn't do much better.
That's not to say there isn't excess police violence, and discriminatory over-policing; there are clearly both.
Not to mention botched mental health calls, such as the one above, where death is the end result and quite probably it didn't need to be that way.
But look above and you'll see you are much safer from police, including if your Black in Toronto. Period, full-stop.
Over-reach does not further the cause of reform.
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www.theglobeandmail.com
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