Sixty-nine people were killed by police in Canada last year, a record that continues a sharply rising trend in recent years, according to new research by the Tracking Injustice project.
Lethal force by Canadian police officers has seen a “steep” rise in recent years, with 2022 being the deadliest on record, according to new research released Thursday.
The findings come from a first-of-its-kind database compiling police use of deadly force across Canada since 2000. The research is an effort to close the national data gap on officer-involved killings, which are not compiled by any government agency — despite growing calls for statistics to track racial disparities.
