Phillip Primeau: Quality-Assurance Measures and Ottawa Researchers

phillip primeau: Bordeleau said he has high confidence in the overall study, despite what Brown and Primeau found, according to Metro News. The York research team assured us that they had enough quality-assurance measures in place, to ensure that the data and the scope and the size of the amount of information were collected was accurate, he said. According to a study done by two Ottawa researchers, Gregory Brown and Phillip Primeau, officers fears that the project would be used against them lead to some officers avoiding parts of the city, incorrectly entering information and failing to do traffic stops all together . The data from traffic stops lead to a report by researchers at York University that found no direct evidence of racial profiling, but did find that black and Middle Eastern drivers were more likely to be pulled over. He said they commissioned Primeau and Brown's report to get a broader picture. Sulaimon Giwa, a researcher and case manager at the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization said he's not surprised officers mistrusted the program. We wanted to make sure that our officers had an opportunity to express their views, and we wanted to enrich the outcome of the study, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.