Conflict, Crisis and Accountability: Racial profiling and law enforcement in Canada
This fall, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, launched Conflict, Crisis and Accountability: Racial profiling and law enforcement in Canada. Featured here discussing his new book, author Charles C. Smith outlines some of the developments contributing to ongoing conflicts between law enforcement officials in Toronto and the city's African Canadian community, some of the history behind racial profiling in Canada and abroad, as well as ongoing efforts to reduce and eliminate racial profiling in domestic law enforcement.
Also featured at the book launch were Dr. Monia Mazigh, Faisal Kutty, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Dr. Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Author of Canada's Economic Apartheid: The Social Exclusion of Racialized Groups in the New Century, Karl Flecker, Canadian Labour Congress, Jana Kooren, ACLU Minnesota, and Dr. Carol Tator, York University. Check out these podcasts here.
