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The Violence 360 campaign rolled into Ottawa Sunday morning, the fourth stop on a provincial tour that has included Windsor, Hamilton and Toronto.
Financed by the government of Ontario under a $47-million, four-year Black Youth Action Plan, the campaign is designed to prevent incidents of violence by sharing stories on social media about people’s experiences.
On the eighth floor of Shopify’s global headquarters, nearly 50 youths, mostly black, listened to local entrepreneur Chad Aiken relate a rather extraordinary journey with the Ottawa Police Service.
It began on May 29, 2005, when, while driving a Mercedes, he was stopped by police. A few weeks later, Aiken filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission, alleging discrimination.
Five years later, in 2010, the complaint was considered by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. Following complex settlement negotiations involving the Ottawa Police Services Board, a pilot project was launched to collect data about police stops. However, Aiken felt the project should collect data about pedestrian stops as well. When the Tribunal disagreed with this, Aiken sought a judicial review, but meantime, in late 2016, the data project results were published, showing that black drivers or those who appear Middle-Eastern were at least 2.3 times more likely to be pulled over based on their percentage of the population.
This, at any rate, was the complicated backdrop for the talk given Sunday by Aiken, who knows from personal experience just how prevalent those stops are. The Ottawa native, now 30, estimates he has been stopped by police around 50 times, starting when he around 11 or 12. Most of the stops have occurred while he was walking, not driving — which explains his desire for a pilot project that captures pedestrian stops by police.
“At first being stopped by police seemed kind of cool — kids at school thought so,” he said in an interview before his talk, “but after a while, it was no longer cool”.
Aiken said it has got to the stage where he refuses to drive at night unless he absolutely has to. ”
There’s a 90 per cent chance I will be stopped if I go out,” he said.
There is anger in his voice, but it’s measured. “I have no criminal record. I have a degree (from Carleton University). I have children and a house in the suburbs, which is policed by the Ontario Provincial Police, by the way — and I’ve never been stopped by them.”
The reason Aiken is on a stage Sunday morning is because he wants the black community to act in concert.
“How do we hold the police accountable?” he asked rhetorically.
His answer is to start by collecting data as a community: get the police badge numbers, pay attention to exactly where and by whom and how many officers stopped you, he urged the crowd.
And, above all, stay calm.
“They work for us,” he said in reference to the Ottawa police. “There should be mutual respect.”
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Financed by the government of Ontario under a $47-million, four-year Black Youth Action Plan, the campaign is designed to prevent incidents of violence by sharing stories on social media about people’s experiences.
On the eighth floor of Shopify’s global headquarters, nearly 50 youths, mostly black, listened to local entrepreneur Chad Aiken relate a rather extraordinary journey with the Ottawa Police Service.
It began on May 29, 2005, when, while driving a Mercedes, he was stopped by police. A few weeks later, Aiken filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission, alleging discrimination.
Five years later, in 2010, the complaint was considered by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. Following complex settlement negotiations involving the Ottawa Police Services Board, a pilot project was launched to collect data about police stops. However, Aiken felt the project should collect data about pedestrian stops as well. When the Tribunal disagreed with this, Aiken sought a judicial review, but meantime, in late 2016, the data project results were published, showing that black drivers or those who appear Middle-Eastern were at least 2.3 times more likely to be pulled over based on their percentage of the population.
This, at any rate, was the complicated backdrop for the talk given Sunday by Aiken, who knows from personal experience just how prevalent those stops are. The Ottawa native, now 30, estimates he has been stopped by police around 50 times, starting when he around 11 or 12. Most of the stops have occurred while he was walking, not driving — which explains his desire for a pilot project that captures pedestrian stops by police.
“At first being stopped by police seemed kind of cool — kids at school thought so,” he said in an interview before his talk, “but after a while, it was no longer cool”.
Aiken said it has got to the stage where he refuses to drive at night unless he absolutely has to. ”
There’s a 90 per cent chance I will be stopped if I go out,” he said.
There is anger in his voice, but it’s measured. “I have no criminal record. I have a degree (from Carleton University). I have children and a house in the suburbs, which is policed by the Ontario Provincial Police, by the way — and I’ve never been stopped by them.”
The reason Aiken is on a stage Sunday morning is because he wants the black community to act in concert.
“How do we hold the police accountable?” he asked rhetorically.
His answer is to start by collecting data as a community: get the police badge numbers, pay attention to exactly where and by whom and how many officers stopped you, he urged the crowd.
And, above all, stay calm.
“They work for us,” he said in reference to the Ottawa police. “There should be mutual respect.”
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