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Press Review: Cent and Street Level

press review: That's only a slight decline from the 73 per cent that minorities comprised in such street-level encounters between 2011 and early 2015, according to data the city made available last year, according to Toronto Star. It's also higher than the roughly 63 per cent that blacks comprised between 2007 and 2010, according to a report the department released in 2015. At least 71 per cent of all street level, police-civilian encounters from 2015 through early 2016 involved persons of colour, while whites comprised about 22 per cent, an Associated Press review of the most recently available data shows. That report didn't include the tallies for other minority groups. Article Continued Below Over 7 per cent of all police-civilian encounters compiled in the department's 2015 to 2016 Field Interrogation, Observation, Frisk and/or Search reports don't list the civilian's race at all. And the gap between minorities and whites in the most recent reporting period is likely higher. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.