Rights: Police and Rights Commission

rights: The letter was also sent to the premier, the province's justice minister and police complaints commissioner, among others, according to CBC. The group wants SIRT and the human rights commission to investigate the practice and ask for police to immediately halt street checks, which they say violates citizens' individual rights under the Constitution. The group, which includes social workers and lawyers, has written a letter the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and the Serious Incident Response Team SIRT the province's police watchdog. Police collected street check data Statistics collected by the Halifax Regional Police going back 11 years reveal police are three times more likely to stop and check people who are black than white individuals. Social worker Robert Wright was one of the people who wrote the letter, along with Dalhousie law professor Michelle Williams, lawyer Shawna Hoyte and Rev. In the first 10 months of 2016, 41 per cent of street checks done by the RCMP around Halifax involved people identified by officers as black. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.