Unpacking the Toronto Police's report revealing systemic racism

Guest: Wendy Gillis, crime and policing reporter

On Wednesday, the Toronto Police Service unveiled a landmark report that made clear there is systemic discrimination in their policing. Including use of force statistics from 2020, the results show that many racialized people face over policing, in particular, Black and Indigenous people. This comes as no surprise to many of Black and Indigenous communities, but now the police have acknowledged the problem with their own data and say they have started with recommendations to fix it. Will it make a difference?

This episode was produced by Brian Bradley, Paulo Marques and Raju Mudhar.