Street checks, done right, and for the right reasons, have value, said Tulloch. But to underscore just how out-of-hand “carding” or random street check encounters — with no investigative value — had become, he spoke about recent times when street checks and quotas were used by some services in officer performance reviews. While Black and, to a lesser extent, brown-skinned people were subject to higher rates of street checks, compared to what they represent in Toronto’s population, people with white skin colour represented the largest skin colour group, by sheer volume, in street check data examined by the Star. Toronto police suspended street checks involving the inputting of personal details into a database in 2015. Similar street check racial patterns to Toronto’s emerged in other Ontario police jurisdictions, leading to the enactment of the province-wide regulations.

Source: thestar January 04, 2019 16:59 UTC