Profiling minorities: police stop and search practices in Toronto, Canada

This paper explores police stop and search practices in Toronto using the 2003-2012 data from Toronto Police Service. The findings demonstrate that for black youth, the number of stops and the stops/arrests ratios increased significantly by 42.7% and 44.9% respectively between 2003 and 2012, while f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yunliang Meng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bucharest 2017-05-01
Series:Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography
Subjects:
GIS
Online Access:http://humangeographies.org.ro/articles/111/a_111_1_meng.pdf