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Rising gun violence in Toronto has become a topic of national discussion in recent months. The conversation is of particular interest to...

Police error can have dire consequences. Consider the Hillsborough Disaster in the UK in 1989, where errors in police crowd management...

In the previous post, I explored the role of the police in society. One of my main conclusions was that policing is an inherently...

In part 1 of this series, I explored the use of crime statistics to hold the police to account. I examined various issues with crime...

"All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law." Article 7 of the Universal...

"I couldn’t be any clearer about [the police's] mission: it isn’t a thirty-point plan; it is to cut crime. No more, and no less." Theresa...

"Police are to the government as the edge is to the knife" (Bayley quoted in Chevigny 1995). A particular facet of politics that is often...

Hello, and welcome to my blog. I will be using this space to explore policy ideas and issues. My primary focus is on policing policy, but...