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I always find these articles interesting, even if they are sometimes bogged down in lawyeres. I’m wondering if anyone has ever done a study like the one sourced in your article, but broken down to see how often black, white, Asian, whatever officers stop black, white, Asian, whatever suspects. In other words, I wonder how much the badge affects a person’s thinking when compared to their skin color. There’s an entire sociology paper waiting to be written here.

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It seems like a bit of an oversight, in an article discussing peoples’ attitudes toward police based on their race and/or socio-economic status, to not make any mention of Indigenous peoples’ relationships with the RCMP at all. Or of the intersectionality between race and class (once again, I’m thinking specifically of Indigenous people here specifically, among whom there is an incredibly disproportionate poverty rate).

Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to talk about the experiences of Black and South Asian people, but Indigenous people are the first demographic that come to my mind when I think “who is the most likely to be unfairly targeted by police?”

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Los Campesinos! for the win!

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Anybody else hear the news story about the homeless black man in Georgia who was sent to prison for nonpayment of child support for a child who was not his?

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It seems like a bit of an oversight, in an article discussing peoples’ attitudes toward police based on their race and/or socio-economic status, to not make any mention of Indigenous peoples’ relationships with the RCMP at all.

It was a specific omission because I didn’t have any research statistics on First Nations attitudes towards police, and for a semi-scholarly article just saying “everybody knows natives and cops don’t get along” isn’t good enough.

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