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Jim Rankin On Police Carding

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The primary role of the police force is to prevent the occurrences of crime and to create a safe environment for the public. This is achieved through numerous different tactics, which may include creating a positive relationship with the community or through stricter methods such as carding. However, with strategies such as carding, there is a widespread of public criticism regarding the overall act and its existence. Toronto Star’s Jim Rankin writes an article criticizing the practise and reveals abandoned policies that would have enforced the rights of Canadian citizens, along with a flaw in the claims of Toronto police chief, Mark Saunders, which states that carding is not discriminatory. However, evidence in Rankin’s report says otherwise. The issues that revolve around carding flies against in the face of the components of the criminal justice system, such as …show more content…

It questions the purpose of carding and discredits the practise overall. To understand the concerns regarding carding, it is essential to understand just what carding is in general. It is the very act of “officers gather[ing] personal data from persons in encounters that are usually non-criminal” (Griffiths 131). From there, the officers input all the data into a private database that only the police can access. Rankin writes in his Toronto Star article, “Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders’s secret carding report”, dated on May 26 2015, in regards to why carding is obviously an issue and criticizes the very nature of it. What occurs is that there are higher rates of black and brown citizens are being targeted than white citizens in all of the city’s patrol zones, which total more than 70 locations (Rankin, “Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders’s secret carding report”). The police analysis says otherwise, saying that there

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