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Ottawa police disproportionately pull over Middle Eastern and black drivers, according to years of data just released by a team of researchers.
Police Monday revealed the results of a two-year project undertaken as part of a human rights settlement after an 18-year-old black man alleged he was racially profiled by the force and stopped by officers in a Mercedes Benz simply for being black.
The data reveal that people who Ottawa officers think are Middle Eastern are 3.3 times more likely to be pulled over than their percentage of the population, while people who Ottawa officers think are black are 2.3 times more likely to be pulled over than their percentage of the population.
The Traffic Stop Race Data Collection Project began in 2013 after an arbitrated settlement between the police service and the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
The data, however, only measures what officers perceived a driver’s race to be and in the overwhelmingly majority of traffic stops, race wasn’t perceived prior to the driver being pulled over.
syogaretnam@postmedia.com
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Police Monday revealed the results of a two-year project undertaken as part of a human rights settlement after an 18-year-old black man alleged he was racially profiled by the force and stopped by officers in a Mercedes Benz simply for being black.
The data reveal that people who Ottawa officers think are Middle Eastern are 3.3 times more likely to be pulled over than their percentage of the population, while people who Ottawa officers think are black are 2.3 times more likely to be pulled over than their percentage of the population.
The Traffic Stop Race Data Collection Project began in 2013 after an arbitrated settlement between the police service and the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
The data, however, only measures what officers perceived a driver’s race to be and in the overwhelmingly majority of traffic stops, race wasn’t perceived prior to the driver being pulled over.
syogaretnam@postmedia.com
twitter.com/shaaminiwhy
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