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Militarized police pose a monsterous threat to democracy

Consider this a wake-up for Canadians whose federal government is closely following U.S. trends and went to war both in Afghanistan and in Libya. People were slaughtered in those lands by our military forces and both those devastated nations are ...

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The reasons why Chief Bill Blair and Alok Mukherjee must be gone

Frank Touby – There are two main reasons I advocate not only the removal of Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, but also of Police Services Board (PSB) Chairman Alok Mukherjee…and perhaps most of the board. In Blair’s case my chief ...

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Command-&-control cop paradigm a threat to us all

John Sewell – Albert Einstein reportedly defined insanity as doing the same things over and over again and expecting to get different results. When you begin looking at the recommendations about how things should change so police do not kill ...

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Police Accountability report: candidate views, carding

John Sewell — Police Accountability Bulletin No. 85, August 2014, reports on answers from mayoral candidates, new carding data, Iacobucci’s disappointing report, more thinking on guns, the carding “satisfaction” survey. 1. Questioning the candidates for mayor TPAC has sent a ...

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Toronto police have located a 14-year-old girl missing since July 13.

The Toronto Police Service has located a girl missing for a day. Katelyn Marsh, 14, was last seen on Sunday, July 13, 2014, at approximately 5 p.m., in the Danforth Avenue and Monarch Park Avenue area. She is described as white, 5’1″, ...

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Local officer shapes up for widows’ fund to help victims

Kimberly Spice – A detective in the Homicide Division, Mary Vruna wanted to restart her workouts and bring up her athleticism by joining the Toronto Police Headquarters team for the Insanity Challenge, a 60-day hard-core workout pitting divisional teams against ...

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Missing girl Leticia Marshall, 14

The Toronto Police Service is requesting the public’s assistance locating a missing girl. Leticia Marshall, 14, was last seen on Saturday, May 31, 2014, in the Yonge Street and Richmond Street West area. She is described as light-skinned brown, 5’6″, ...

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Police concerned for safety of woman missing since April 12

The Toronto Police Service is requesting the public’s assistance locating a missing woman. Elizabeth Norman, 46, was last seen on Saturday, April 12, 2014, at 4:15 p.m., near The Albion Centre. She is described as 5’4″, 110 lbs., brown hair ...

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Correlation between fear and the amount of power people seek

In 1971, George Johnson, a New York City policeman, arrested a man who was in a Times Square office building rifling through coats looking for money. Rather than call a paddy wagon, Johnson walked the man ten blocks across town ...

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Toronto Police Services Board to hold a meeting on carding

John Sewell — The Board has scheduled a special public meeting on Tuesday April 8, 2014, at 6:00 PM, in the Auditorium at Police Headquarters, 40 College Street, to solicit public input on a draft policy proposed to the Board ...

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