Toronto Community: People and Toronto

toronto community: In Known to the Police, the Toronto Star ground-breaking analysis of street checks data, better known as carding, it was confirmed that the practice of carding in Toronto disproportionally impacts the lives of Black and Brown men in the City of Toronto, according to Rabble. The Star analysis dramatically confirmed what Black people and Black activists had been maintaining for many years, that Toronto Police disproportionately target Black and Brown young people in their street checks. The decision by the TPSB represents a significant impact on the rights of Black, Indigenous, and Brown people, as well as homeless people and other marginalized people in our Toronto community. In these street checks the personal information of these young people is unconstitutionally and illegally gathered and stored in a database for unspecified use in the future. There is growing evidence that the information gathered in the database has been used to deny persons access to resources and jobs for which they would have been otherwise qualified. Many people who have been carded have come forward to explain how the practice of carding robs them not only of their Charter rights but of their dignity as well. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.