This: ‘A narrative that already exists’: How Toronto police prepared to publish data confirming systemic racism
The problem is the “data” did not confirm anything beyond the fact that it was skewed by design in order to push the preferred race-baiting narrative as Lorrie Goldstein so ably pointed out.
GOLDSTEIN: Here’s why we no longer talk honestly about police race-based data
… But what the report excludes are the crime rates in the various communities with which the police interact.
Logically that’s part of the equation because if they are higher in some communities than others, that will impact the frequency and type of their interactions with police.
However, it has been illegal for police forces in Ontario to gather or reveal this data for decades.
GOLDSTEIN: Policing report exposes flawed logic of race-crime statistics
… In other words, while Blacks were disproportionately charged by police compared to whites (15,122 per 100,000 compared to 3,853 per 100,000), whites were disproportionately charged by police compared to visible minority groups other than Blacks (3,853 per 100,000 compared to 2,116 per 100,000).
The problem with this logic is that it infers that for the police to prove they aren’t racist, they must demonstrate the percentage of people they arrest and charge in every racial group reflects their percentage of the population.
