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cent: The Halifax Regional Police figures showed that of the roughly 37,000 people checked between 2005 and 2016, almost 4,100 were black, despite making up only 3.59 per cent of the municipal population, according to the 2011 census, according to Globe and Mail. Both Nova Scotia's premier and Halifax's mayor have voiced concerns about the numbers. A January report from the Halifax RCMP which patrols certain parts of the Halifax Regional Municipality found that in the first 10 months of 2016, 41 per cent of 1,246 street checks involved African-Nova Scotians. Blais said Thursday that records of the 68,400 street checks conducted over that period suggest 91 per cent of them can be linked to individuals who have been charged with a crime. Of the 12 homicides in Halifax in 2016, he said seven of the victims were black males. The police chief defended street checks as a necessary information-gathering policing tool, and said community concerns must be wedded to broader issues of criminality. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.