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Toronto police chief expected to apologize to Black community over use of force: sources

Chief James Ramer is scheduled to speak Wednesday morning at the release of never-before-seen statistics on race and officer use of force. The police service has warned officers to prepare for a โ€œchallengingโ€ public response.

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Toronto police Chief James Ramer is expected to apologize to members of the cityโ€™s Black community Wednesday when his force will release a report on never-before-seen race-based statistics, the Star has learned.

Multiple sources tell the Star that Ramer โ€” who is scheduled to speak to the media from Toronto police headquarters Wednesday โ€” is expected to issue an apology in his public comments on the new data. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

If given, an apology would be a shift in tone from how police have responded to previous reports detailing the ways the Black community faces police force at rates higher than their share of the cityโ€™s population. One difference this time: Wednesdayโ€™s report has been prepared by Toronto police itself.

Ramerโ€™s press conference is scheduled to begin after the public release of statistics on use of force and strip searches conducted in 2020 โ€” internal data thatโ€™s never been released by police and thatโ€™s only recently started to be documented by officers.

Toronto police provided a technical briefing to members of the media on Tuesday in preparation for the release. Asked Tuesday, a Toronto police spokesperson declined to comment on whether Ramer will issue an apology.

Before 2020, police were not required to note the perceived race of the people they used force against, nor did officers record the race of those subjected to strip searches, a practice that, despite Canadaโ€™s Supreme Court dubbing it โ€œinherently degrading,โ€ wasย found to be routineย within the Toronto police in a scathing 2019 report.

Also in 2019, police services across Ontario were mandated by the province to begin documenting a personโ€™s perceived race in officersโ€™ use of force reports. These reports โ€” which are required whenever an officer uses physical force requiring medical attention, deploys a TASER, or draws or points their firearm โ€” are the basis of some of the statistics set to be released Wednesday.

The release is expected to make for a โ€œchallengingโ€ few weeks, Toronto police told employees in an internal message sent over the weekend and obtained by the Star.

The note did not provide specifics about the race-based data but said the findings โ€œreaffirm the existence of systemic racismโ€ and will prompt discussion about โ€œthe extent to which systemic racism has led to differential treatment of racial groups by our service.โ€

โ€œIt will be difficult for you, our members, as it will lead some people to question the hard work you do every day,โ€ the internal message said, which noted officers will be supported.

In a statement onย its race-based collection page, the Toronto Police Service says it is committed โ€œto comprehensive police reform and internal culture change.โ€

โ€œWe recognize that race-based data has been misused by the Toronto Police Service in the past. We will use this data to help us work more deeply with communities,โ€ the force said.

Previous examinations of Toronto police data by the Ontario Human Rights Commission have found that Black Torontonians wereย โ€œgrossly overrepresentedโ€ in cases in which police have used force.

In a groundbreaking 2018 report, the OHRC found that a Black person was nearly 20 times more likely than a white person to be fatally shot by Toronto police.

In a joint statement responding to that report, the Toronto police and its civilian police board said they would act on the reportsโ€™ recommendations and that they โ€œrecognize that there are those within Torontoโ€™s Black communities who feel that, because of the colour of their skin, the police, including when it comes to use of force, have at times, treated them differently.โ€

But the statement said, โ€œsome may raise questions about the approach, methodology and statistical basis of this report.โ€ It went on to say that the issues raised in the report should be โ€œscrutinized to ensure the fullest and fairest analysis and accounting.โ€

Further data analysis by the OHRC in 2020 found Black peopleย were five times more likely than white people to be subjected to lower-level physical force, causing injuries such as severe bruises or lacerations, during the same time period.

After the release of the additional data, Toronto police and its board said it was โ€œcommitted to learning and continuing to address the harmful impacts of systemic racism.โ€

They acknowledged in a statement that the reportโ€™s findings came โ€œat a pivotal time in history, as people around the world are engaged in a critical dialogue about anti-Black racism, policing, accountability and reform.โ€

Community advocates, police researchers and criminologists have, for years, been calling for the collection of race-based data to track and measure bias within the Toronto police service and policing nationwide.

In 2019, the Toronto Police Services Boardย unanimously approved a policyย around the collection of race-based data, a change dubbed historic at the time and that was aimed at improving trust in some city communities.

โ€œFor me personally, as a member of the Black community in Toronto, I wanted to also honour the legacy of people whoโ€™ve been advocating for this for over 30 years,โ€ Notisha Massaquoi, former co-chair of the anti-racism advisory panel that shaped the policy, said at the time.

The Toronto police press conference is scheduled to take place Wednesday morning.

Wendy Gillisย is a Toronto-based reporter covering crime and policing for the Star. Reach her by email atย wgillis@thestar.caย or follow her on Twitter: @wendygillis


 
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