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much more likely to be stopped and neither charged nor warned with a traffic offence. Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordeleau said racial profiling is not tolerated within the service. He said the report raises questions, but they still need to look more closely at the data to determine why certain groups are stopped more often. Ryan “Our journey doesn’t end here — we Tumilty have more work to do,” he said. “We need Metro | Ottawa to look deeper at the issues.” Middle Eastern drivers are 3.3 times more Bordeleau said it’s not possible to conlikely to be stopped by Ottawa Police clude that the numbers mean officers are and black drivers 2.3 times more likely, engaged in racial profiling. according to a study of traffic stop data Professor Lesley Jacobs, who worked released Monday. on the project, said the reResearchers from York sults are both consistent with racial profiling and University analyzed data from 81,000 traffic stops also not proof of racial between 2013 and 2015. You can not have profiling, conceding that The project came as a re- a research design is not what the project set sult of a settlement with out to prove. that will prove the Ontario Human Rights Bordeleau said the poracial profiling. lice would work with the Commission over the stop of an 18-year-old black community and would Professor Lesley Jacobs man in 2012. continue to collect data Officers reported being able to tell the on the issue. He also encouraged other race of the drive prior to the stop in only forces to do the same. “It’s important that 11 per cent of cases. The study found that other police forces take our lead and start Middle Eastern and black drivers were collecting this data.”
Chief says more work needed to answer why
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