Toronto Police Services Board
Samuel Engelking
Working group to probe police's mishandling of Village murders takes cautious first steps
Activists say the review is necessary to help ease the tension and mistrust between the LGBTQ+ community and police which is in “a state of crisis” more
@BLM_TO
Toronto school board votes to end cops in schools program, so what’s next?
Five community organizers offer insight on how Canada’s largest school board should address safety and inclusion for its most marginalized students more
R. Jeanette Martin
The Unity Festival for LGBTQ police officers is a bad idea
Toronto's Bryn Hendricks wants an alternative to the Pride Parade, but no one else seems to care more
Police board chair lying in the weeds on request for pot charges moratorium
Andy Pringle doesn't want to ask police chief why his officers are not doing more to exercise discretion when it comes to laying charges for small amounts of marijuana more
Former Toronto Star columnist Michele Landsberg calls out paper's bosses for Desmond Cole "blunder"
In pushing out Cole, the paper has dishonoured the work of its pioneering reporters who had documented the harms of police carding – and lost its strongest voice on race issues, writes Landsberg more
Jonathan Goldsbie
Time for police to destroy carding data
Former chief Bill Blair was all for purging info collected on innocent people - most of them young Black men - during street checks, so why has Mark Saunders reneged? more
Joel Duff
Toronto Police Chief's plan for change smells like 2011
Like glossy pitch for miracle drug, Mark Saunders's action plan for modernizing policing is full of buzzwords but short on specifics more
Courtesy of TTC
Two-tiered policing is coming to Toronto
Part of John Tory's answer to rising policing costs is to give them less work and hand traffic duties over to TTC enforcement officers more
Larry Thorne / Toronto Police Services
Toronto police's not so stealth move
Chief does aboutface on militaristic colour scheme for new police cruisers – raising more questions about his judgment more
Jonathan Goldsbie
Police board chair Andy Pringle backs away from Kellie Leitch campaign
His move follows a series of NOW articles questioning the dual roles more
Jonathan Goldsbie
Mayor Tory defends police chair's support for "Canadian values" candidate Kellie Leitch
He also declines to condemn Leitch's Conservative leadership campaign, which is being run by his own election strategist more
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Andy Pringle's Leitch fundraising activities may break police board code of conduct
It shows "terrible judgment," says lawyer Howard Morton more
Jonathan Goldsbie
Police board chair raising funds for Conservative leadership candidate who wants to screen immigrants for "Canadian values"
Toronto Police
Year-long police pilot fails to make convincing case for body-worn cameras
Are these devices really the answer to racial profiling or more about protecting cops? more
Cheol Joon Baek
Just how deep in the police union's pocket is John Tory?
Media pundits who still believe in Elmer the Elephant are lapping up assurances that change is nigh, but the truth is the mayor is just not that into the kind of radical shift needed to modernize policing. more
The incredible disappearing police budget
No detailed document on how the force plans to spend $1 billion seems to exist more
How to shrink the police budget
Half a dozen potential savings identified in KPMG's review of Toronto police more
Peter Sloly's story is a study in supersonic career mobility
Would he have made a meaningful difference had he won the chief's job, given Toronto police's resistance to change? more
Galit Rodan/cp photo
Peter Sloly: last man standing no more
If the initial one-line announcement of his departure was odd, the superlatives in the Police Services Board's official statement were sarcastic praise for a man who was rejected for the chief's job more
Michelle da Silva
Toronto police sell out sanctuary city
Access to Information request reveals cops conducting thousands of “status checks” on undocumented immigrants, despite “don’t ask” policy more
