Pringle Support: Racialized Communities and Board Ability

pringle support: In early October, a number of past and present police board members and other experts expressed serious concerns to NOW that Pringle support for Leitch could undermine public trust in the board ability to tackle crucial issues involving the policing of racialized communities and that such actions could constitute a breach of the board members code of conduct, according to NOW Magazine. Shortly after these reports, it turns out, Pringle pulled back from the campaign. Toronto Police Services Board chair Andy Pringle has quietly stepped away from his role as a key fundraiser for Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Kellie Leitch, who since September has campaigned on a xenophobic proposal to screen all immigrants, refugees and visitors to Canada for their ostensible compatibility with Canadian values. Since your articles, I basically have said that if there gonna be concern about this, my first responsibility is to the job I m doing at the Transformational Task Force of the police, Pringle told NOW late last week. So as long as I m chair of the Transformational Task Force, I m gonna be staying away from any form of partisan politics, Pringle said, adding for clarity So not helping, not supporting anybody point of view, not helping any candidate, not raising money for anybody. The task force, which he co-chairs with chief Mark Saunders, is set to report next month on a modernization of policing in Toronto, with an eye to reining in costs and adopting a more community-centric approach. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.