Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 153, September 25, 2024.

September 25th 2024

In this issue:
1. Policing public order
2. How many cops does Toronto need?
3. Vulnerable Person registry

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 152, May 5, 2024.

May 5th 2024

In this issue:
1. The Zameer case and Toronto police credibility
2. TTC to get body cameras
3. Senior staff appointments and a missed opportunity
4. Horrific police chase

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 151, April 4, 2024.

April 4th 2024

In this issue:
1. Police to get helicopters
2. The 9-1-1 problem
3. No-knock raids
4. Safer for All, an Edmonton documentary

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 150, February 11, 2024.

February 11th 2024

In this issue:
1. Police Board budget at City Council February 14
2. Volunteers needed

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 149, January 10, 2024.

January 10th 2024

In this issue:
1. Police Board budget debate
2. Gun violence declines in Toronto
3. TPAC Instagram account
4. Ontario Human Rights Commission report on racism

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 148, December 14, 2023.

December 14th 2023

1. Police service 2024 operating budget request.
Ways to reduce spending:
2. Diverting more mental crisis and social crisis calls
3. Public events – parades and demonstrations
4. Police patrol
5. Tickets and trafficking
6. Two officers in a car after dark

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 147, October 4, 2023.

October 4th 2023

In this issue:
1. Police and cell phone service on the TTC
2. Misrepresenting crime levels in Toronto
3. New Police Board members
4. TPAC renewal, again

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 146, July 19, 2023.

July 19th 2023

In this issue:
1. Training officers in mental crisis response
2. Wrongful convictions
3. TPAC renewal

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 145, June 22, 2023.

June 22nd 2023

In this issue:
1. Toronto police wins award it doesn’t want
2. Police cancel the licenced bar in police headquarters
3. New appointee to Toronto Police Service Board

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 144, April 20, 2023.

April 20th 2023

In this issue:
1. The Blue Wall
2. The bar in police headquarters
3. Suspending officers without pay
4. New deputy chiefs
5. New Board member

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 143, March 3, 2023

March 3rd 2023

In this issue:
1. Tracking Injustice
2. Police and violence on the TTC
3. Professional Standards chief
4. Inspector General of Policing
5. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 142, January 25, 2023

January 24th 2023

In this issue:
1. Police Operating Budget 2023
2. The cost of cameras
3. Use of Force policy redraft

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 141, December 1, 2022

December 1st 2022

In this issue:
1. Complaints system is broken
2. New appointees to police board
3. OIPRD on no-knock entry
4. Draft Artificial Intelligence procedures

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 140, September 22, 2022

September 22nd 2022

1. A new police chief; more of the same
2. Policing questions for candidates
3. The negative impacts of neighbourhood policing

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 139, June 23, 2022

June 22nd 2022

In this issue:
1. No surprises with race data
2. Police and charter breaches
3. A serious challenge to Professional Standards
4. Time to end strip searches?

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 138, May 12, 2022

May 12th 2022

In this issue:
1. Meet the new police, same as the old police
2. Refusing to be serious about gun violence
3. A dysfunctional police board

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 137, March 20, 2022

March 20th 2022

In this issue:
1. Ineffective police boards
2. Reluctance to appointing a new police chief
3. Racism and Toronto police

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 136, February 23, 2022

February 23rd 2022

In this issue:
1. Police Board to consider Artificial Intelligence policy

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 135, January 15, 2022

January 15th 2022

In this issue:
1. Police Board meeting on the 2022 budgets
2. TPAC proposals to the City’s Budget Committee
3. Registering with the City’s Budget Committee
4. Mayor Tory accused of conflict violations

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 134, November 24, 2021.

November 24th 2021

In this issue:
1. Police and Artificial Intelligence
2. More provincial funding for guns and gangs
3. The death of Albert Johnson in 1979

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 133, September 30, 2021.

September 29th 2021

In this issue:
1. Crisis in Canada’s Policing, a new book
2. Most calls for service are non-violent
3. Better recruitment policies

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 132, August 31, 2021.

August 31st 2021

In this issue
1. The improbable and impossible next police chief
2. OHRC report on addressing systemic racism

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 131, July 13, 2021.

July 13th 2021

In this issue:
1. Rethinking Police seminar
2. Policing the homeless
3. Expanding the use of conducted energy weapons

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 130, May 6, 2021

May 6th 2021

In this issue
1. Missing and Missed report
2. Police expand mental crisis teams

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 129, April 6, 2021.

April 6th 2021

In this issue:
1. Thinking of a new police chief for Toronto
2. New Board member
3. The morass of the RCMP
4. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 128, March 9, 2021.

March 9th 2021

In this issue:
1. Anti-Racism Advisory Committee appointed
2. Strip searches more limited, but ..
3. Studying police use of guns
4. Toronto City Council again asks for police changes

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 127, January 27, 2021.

January 27th 2021

In this issue:
1. Rethinking Community Safety
2. The Police go the social work route
3. Police budget 2021

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 126, November 27, 2020

November 27th 2020

In this issue:
1. Finally, a new search of persons policy
2. Dealing with those in mental crisis
3. The complicated body worn camera policy
4. Collecting racial data
5. RE-funding police in Alberta

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 125, September 21, 2020.

September 21st 2020

1. Ontario Human Rights Commission report on racial profiling by Toronto police
2. Toronto Police Service Board an impediment to police change
3. Reviewing the recently filed 2020 line-by-line police budget
4. Police discipline system: broken
5. Settlement on class action G20 lawsuit
6. Toronto’s Anti-Black Racism Advisory Council

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 124, August 13, 2020.

August 13th 2020

In this issue:
1. `Police Reform in Toronto’; the Board’s response
2. The body camera proposal

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 123, July 3, 2020.

July 3rd 2020

In this issue:
1. Council sets a new policing agenda for Toronto
2. Waiting for the reaction
3. Police Board meeting July 9

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 122, June 16, 2020.

June 16th 2020

1. Police Board an impediment to change
2. TPAC to City Council on defunding police
3. TPAC in the news
4. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 121, June 8, 2020.

June 8th 2020

1. Defunding police
2. The false hope of body cameras
3. Rethinking special constables
4. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 120, May 19, 2020.

May 19th 2020

1. The status of police body worn cameras in Canadian cities
2. Criteria for a new police chief in Toronto
3. Policing COVID-19
4. Toronto police data, 2019

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 119, April 3, 2020.

April 3rd 2020

In this issue:
1. Policing and COVID-19
2. Police use of facial recognition technology
3. Board suspends regular meetings
4. Assessing the Guns and Gangs initiative

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 118, correction

February 4th 2020

Correction for March symposium registration

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 118, February 3, 2020.

February 3rd 2020

In this issue:
1. Changing the shift schedule, finally
2. Policing symposium
3. New provincial appointees
4. Police Board meetings hither and yon
5. Seeking new TPAC members, again

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 117, December 17, 2019.

December 17th 2019

1. Police not enforcing traffic laws
2. Police staff increasing, again
3. Possible change in strip search practice
4. Introducing body cameras
5. TPAC seeking new members

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 116, September 26, 2019.

September 26th 2019

1. New race data policy for Toronto police
2. No change on strip searches
3. Chair leaves board, new member appointed
4. Neighbourhood policing expands

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 115, August 30, 2019.

August 30th 2019

1. Responding to gun violence in Toronto
2. Little progress on de-escalation
3. Margaret Beare
4. Provincial policing legislation
5. Chief Saunders contract extended for a year

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 114, June 25, 2019

June 25th 2019

1. Public attitudes on Toronto police service
2. Toronto police and big data usage
3. Board unwilling to discuss strip search report
4. Notes on Toronto police culture

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 113, April 15, 2019

April 15th 2019

1. Strip search study
2. Settlement with Toronto Police Association
3. Conducted Energy Weapon usage
4. Future of police oversight

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 112, March 5, 2019.

March 5th 2019

1. Police budget increases about 5 per cent in 2019
2. New five year agreement with Toronto Police Association
3. New police legislation expected at Queens Park
4. Shotspotter dead in Toronto
5. Body cameras rejected in Montreal

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 111, January 8, 2019

January 8th 2019

1. Ontario Human Rights Commission study: racism in Toronto police
2. End carding in Ontario: Mr. Justice Tullochs final report
3. Bill C-75 amending the Criminal Code
4. Shift schedule changes for Toronto police

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 110, November 8, 2018.

November 8th 2018

1. Bargaining for an efficient police force
2. Police reforms in limbo
3. Neighbourhood policing
4. Taser use increases
5. Spotshotter technology

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 109, July 16, 2018.

July 16th 2018

1. New executive director for Police Board
2. Premier Ford delays police reforms
3. Inquiry into missing persons police policy
4. Gun violence and the number of police officers
5. Body scans to replace strip searches?
6. Pre-charge screening
7. Honouring Charles Roach

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 108, April 26, 2018.

April 26th 2018

1. Alok Mukherjee writes about his ten years as police board chair
2. Deadly Force
3. Not dealing with racism
4. Moving backwards on policing

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 107, February 7, 2018.

February 7th 2018

1. Safer Ontario Act hearings
2. Toronto police and serial murders
3. Fake police news
4. Police Association pushes for more officers
5. Community forums on Tulloch reforms to police review agencies

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 106, November 20, 2017.

November 20th 2017

1. Safer Ontario Act
2. Getting police officers out of schools
3. Police opaqueness, not transparency
4. Police operating budget for 2018

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 105, September 21, 2017.

September 21st 2017

1. More on pre-charge screening in Ontario
2. New study on two officer cars
3. New study on Torontos shift schedule
4. The Transitional Task Force derailed

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 104, June 12, 2017.

June 12th 2017

1. Getting police out of schools
2. The Board refuses to debate marijuana
3. Pre-charge screening needed in Ontario

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 103, May 8, 2017.

May 8th 2017

1. Disappointing report on police oversight
2. Desmond Cole cuts the issue, again
3. The illusive changes to the Police Services Act

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 102, March 10, 2017.

March 10th 2017

1. Unfounded
2. Maybe not the Way Forward
3. Ottawa officer charged with manslaughter

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 101, January 11, 2017

January 11th 2017

In this Bulletin:
1. A new report on police and mental health
2. Status of `Matter of Life and Death Report
3. The delay in buying more tasers
4. Police budget goes to City Council
5. Women in the Toronto police force
6. Police unions and the thick blue line

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 100, October 20, 2016.

October 20th 2016

1. The Boards shenanigans
2. TPAC brief on police oversight

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 99, October 13, 2016.

October 13th 2016

1. The Chief recommends tasers for all Toronto officers
2. The 2017 police budget reveals little about police plans
3. Body cameras: wasted money
4. TPAC brief on strip searches
5. RCMP and sexual harassment against women

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 98, June 29, 2016.

June 29th 2016

1. The Transformational Task Force report
2. Chief supports safe drug injections sites
3. Apologizing for the bath house raids

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 97, June 8, 2016.

June 8th 2016

1. Transformational Task Force
2. Body Cameras
3. Implementing the new carding regulation
4. Reviewing police oversight agencies
and also
5. Relying on the tried and untrue explanations

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 96, April 29, 2016.

April 28th 2016

1. G20 class action suit proceeds
2. Trusting police officers to tell the truth
3. New carding regulation
4. Tasers back on the Toronto agenda
5. Police Pay
6. Body cameras for Toronto police?

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 95, March 21, 2016.

March 21st 2016

1. The six page police budget for 2016
2. Transformational Task Force established
3. Police Service Act consultations
4. More police shootings in Toronto
5. Waiting for the regulations on carding

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 94, February 3, 2016.

February 3rd 2016

1. The police pot of gold
2. Buying new Colt Carbines
3. The challenge of bringing basic change to the police service
4. Forcillo convicted
5. Officers charged with perjury

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 93, November 30, 2015.

November 30th 2015

1. Carding: draft regulations
2. Amending the Police Services Act
3. Diverting youth from the criminal justice system
4. The 2015 police operating budget
5. Police violence
6. New member of Police Services Board

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 92, September 11, 2015.

September 11th 2015

In this issue:
1. The carding consultations
2. Police activity in the G20 still an issue
3. Police Services Act consultations
4. The tender bullet scenario
5. Not learning when police kill
6. Province reduces TAVIS funding to Toronto

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 91, June 29, 2015.

June 29th 2015

1. Mayor reverses his position on carding
2. The province intervenes in carding
3. Law suit challenges carding
4. Chair of Toronto Police Services Board resigns
5. Clearing up clearance reports
6. Youth pre-trial diversion strategy requested
7. Maybe a new study on strip searches

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 90, May 7, 2015.

May 7th 2015

In this issue:
1. New chief for Toronto
2. Once again, carding
3. The new four year contract for Toronto police

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 89, March 18, 2015

March 18th 2015

In this Bulletin:
1. A dysfunctional police board
2. Stopping Carding stalls, again
3. Lapel camera pilot project proceeds
4. Encrypting police radios
5. Tasers in the GTA
6. Strip search discussion frustrated
7. Pan Am Games security
8. Occasional name tags
9. TPACer honoured

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 88, January 9, 2015.

January 9th 2015

1. Carding and civilian control of the police
2. New policy on how police deal with those in mental crisis
3. Reconsidering the Safe Streets Act
4. Legislation expected on release of non-conviction records
5. Toronto Police issue many fewer traffic tickets in 2014
6. The next chief of police for Toronto is &
7. A class action suit on the G20 moves forward

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 87, November 20, 2014.

November 20th 2014

In this issue:
1. The community evaluation of the carding program
2. Replacing Bill Blair as chief
3. Police operating budget for 2015
4. Bargaining with the Police Association
5. Police misconduct web site

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 86, September 8, 2014.

September 8th 2014

1. Questions on policing to mayoralty candidates
2. Bill Blair to be replaced as chief
3. Recruiting officers who know Toronto
4. Body cameras
5. The negative impact of police stops

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 85, July 30, 2014

July 31st 2014

1. Questioning the candidates for mayor
2. New carding data
3. The disappointing Iacobucci report
4. More thinking on guns
5. The carding `satisfaction survey

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 84, June 26, 2014.

June 26th 2014

1. Cavoukian sues Toronto police for disclosing mental illness information
2. Non-conviction information released by Toronto Police
3. Restricting police guns
4. Strip searches
5. TAVIS and the downtown east side
6. Ideas about the police?

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 83, May 6, 2014.

May 6th 2014

In this issue:
1. Carding ends, "community contacts" begin
2. Finalizing the new policy
3. Privacy Commissioner on police use of mental health records
4. Reducing police expenditures

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 82, April 2, 2014.

April 1st 2014

Special Bulletin on Carding
1. Toronto Police Services Board special meeting on carding
2. TPACs position
3. Controlling carding: a brief history
4. Frank Addarios advice to the Board

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 81, March 10, 2014.

March 10th 2014

1. Iacobucci Review of Lethal Use of Force
2. Ministrys study on police and those in mental crisis
3. Coroners jury recommendations on three killed by Toronto police
4. OPPs racial profiling of immigrants
5. The cost of learning how many cops Toronto needs
6. How the Ministry decided to expand taser use
7. Again, hope about limiting strip searches
8. Police releasing information for clearance letters
9. Chief Blair and his future

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 80, December 11, 2013.

December 18th 2013

1. Carding: a step forward?
2. Officers killed on duty
3. Another police shooting
4. Business Plan for next three years
5. Public perceptions of Toronto police
6. The `right number of officers
7. Tasers, no news
8. Keeping the 2014 Police Operating Budget secret
9. Link to Toronto Police Services Board meeting

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 79, October 31, 2013.

October 31st 2013

1. Public says NO to more Tasers
2. Trying to make carding more likeable
3. Toronto Police Operating Budget, 2014 edition
4. Investigating Sammy Yatims death
5. The SIU annual report

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 78, September 12, 2013

September 12th 2013

1. Expanding the use of conducted energy weapons (CEWs) in Ontario
2. Toronto Board holds public meeting on CEWs
3. Board distances itself from Sammy Yatim case
4. The new neighbourhood policing, details
5. Chief Blair and the SIU
6. The trap of not getting bail

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 77, August 1, 2013.

August 1st 2013

The death of Sammy Yatim

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 76, June 27, 2013.

June 27th 2013

1. Carding update
2. Police chases
3. Paying police well
4. Neighbourhood officers in Toronto
5. Another man with mental illness killed

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 75, May 15, 2013.

May 15th 2013

1. Street checks continue
2. Police response to those with mental health issues
3. Missing the opportunity to issue clearance letters
4. The Police Board says it is getting tough
5. Hearing on police integrity standards
6. Strip searches

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 74, March 25, 2013.

March 25th 2013

1. How many police officers does Toronto need?
2. Street checks  a.k.a. carding  continue
3. Quota-driven policing
4. Suspension with and without pay
5. Not notifying the SIU
6. Its a well-paid organization

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 73, January 28, 2013.

January 28th 2013

1. Carding questions continue
2. Stop-and-Frisk ruled unconstitutional
3. The real world of TAVIS
4. Sentencing police officers
5. How many officers does Toronto need?

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 72, November 24, 2012

November 24th 2012

1. Carding and receipts create distance between the Board and the Chief
2. Police 2013 operating budget  flat-lined?
3. Charles Roach dies
4. Reviewing police record checks
5. G20 issues continue

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 71, September 27, 2012.

September 27th 2012

In this issue:
1. Changing the carding policy of Toronto police.
2. The personal information released by police
3. Police drones and the future
4. Were Toronto police effective in reducing shootings this summer?
5. Expanding the police boards role

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No.70, August 11, 2012

August 10th 2012

1. The Police Board reacts to Mordens G20 Review
2. Letter to sign responding to G20 reports
3. Carding, the next step
4. Once more with feeling: more police are the answer
5. Clearance letter policy review

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 69, July 11, 2012.

July 11th 2012

1. Two reports on the G20
2. Recommendations to support on G20 activities
3. Toronto drug squad officers convicted
4. Holding police accountable to the Special Investigation Unit
5. July 17 public meeting

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 68, May 1, 2012.

May 1st 2012

1. Police Board, not responding to persons with mental illness
2. How the SIU investigated Michael Eligons death
3. New member of police board
4. Truth in the court room

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 67, April 12, 2012.

April 15th 2012

1. The Police Board moves to control racial profiling
2. The letter carrier and the police officer
3. Police and those on mental crisis
4. Editorializing about police funding
5. Strip search class action in British Columbia


Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 66, February 9, 2012.

February 9th 2012

1. Another death at police hands
2. A better police approach to those in mental crisis
3. OIPRD says theres not much to complain about
4. Not fixing the RCMP

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 65, December 1, 2011.

December 1st 2011

1. Judicial findings of misconduct
2. Police 2012 operating budget
3. Making a deputation before the Toronto Police Services Board
4. Occupy Toronto
5. C-10, the Omnibus Crime Bill
6. Service Efficiency Study of Toronto Police
7. Paying for the G20 Review

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 64, on Strip Searches, November 21, 2011.

November 21st 2011

Special Bulletin on Strip Searches
1. Uncovering the Toronto Police policy on strip searches
2. Toronto Police service Search of Persons policy
3. Appendix B of the policy, Risk Assessment
4. Supreme Court of Canada decision, R v. Golden
5. Some problems with the Toronto Police policy

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 63, September 28, 2011.

September 28th 2011

1. We can improve Toronto Policing! An October 18 forum
2. Death on Bloor Street
3. Reviewing strip search policy
4. Refusing to promote badge-less G20 officers
5. What cuts to the police budget?
6. Too many police?

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 62, July 25, 2011.

July 25th 2011

1. Latest figures on Toronto strip searches
2. Presenting to the G20 Review, and responding to questions
3. Police Boards: training and oversight
4. TPACs policing forum
5. Collective agreement approved
6. Wheres that name badge?
7. The Chief reviews police activities at the G20

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 61, May 20, 2011

May 20th 2011

1. The Toronto police collective agreement: missing the obvious
2. TPAC policing forum
3. The secret public meetings
4. The high cost of being accused of police misconduct
5. G20 review hearings

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 60, May 5, 2011.

May 5th 2011

1. Rethinking Toronto police: a public forum
2. The cost of paying suspended police officers
3. Strip search proposal at Board
4. Standing in the way of informed police boards
5. Sexual harassment within the Hamilton police force
6. Police document many during G20 meeting
7. Proposed changes to rules around the SIU
8. Paid duty system: the city auditor reports

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 59, March 18, 2011.

March 18th 2011

1. Reporting on the G20
a) Breach of the Peace
b) The Boards review
2. Trying to get strip searches on the public agenda
3. Buying more cameras
4. Taser use 2010
5. Police ignore SIU probes

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 58, February 1, 2011.

February 1st 2011

1. Reducing the size of the Toronto police force
2. Death of Sergeant Ryan Russell
3. Making crisis intervention work
4. A 10th birthday for TPAC

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 57, November 29, 2010.

November 30th 2010

1. G20 update
a) SIU investigation
b) OIPRD Review
c) CCLA hearings
d) Legal actions
e) G20 detainees still in jail
2. More video cameras on the street?
3. Starving prisoners in court
4. OIPRD`s first year

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 56, October 20, 2010.

October 20th 2010

1. G20 update
a) Class action law suit
b) Police activity continues
c) Reviewing police actions
d) Police action on G20 arrests
e) Speaking out politically
2. Another police killing in Toronto
3. `Police in Canada, the real story

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin, No. 55, September 17, 2010.

September 17th 2010

1. Ten weeks after the G20, and waiting
2. Keith Forde retires
3. Another police killing in Toronto
4. Striking out on racial profiling, again
5. Professional standards
6. A short and snappy policing agenda

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin, No. 54, June 21, 2010.

June 22nd 2010

1. Police accountability and the G20
2. Long gun registry data
3. SIU and the obligation to do reasonable investigations

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 53, May 19, 2010.

May 19th 2010

1. Two recent Toronto deaths
2. Making sure the evidence fits
3. Taser use in Toronto
4. The G20 meeting and police consolidation
5. Assessing the Human Rights project

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 52, March 12, 2010.

March 12th 2010

1. Racial profiling in Toronto
2. Building on budget cuts
3. A leisurely study into corruption issues
4. Coroners jury says stop shooting at cars

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 51, January 29, 2010.

January 29th 2010

1. Corruption trials off the rails
2. Duty pay
3. The chair on the high costs of policing
4. TTC special constables to evolve into police officers?




Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 50, December 7, 2009.

December 7th 2009

1. More on police in schools
2. 2010 police budget
3. Compressed work week, new schedule?
4. New complaints procedures in Ontario
5. New rules for tasers

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 49, October 7, 2009.

October 7th 2009

In this issue:
1. Police in Toronto schools
2. Braidwood Inquiry on tasers
3. Silence on police brawl
4. New head of Police Association
5. Complaints office to open
6. Police compensation



Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 48, June 15, 2009.

June 15th 2009

1. A fine police brawl
2. Fine tuning rules about police complaints
3. Six more years for Chief Bill Blair
4. The short-sightedness of tough sentencing

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 47, May 11, 2009

May 11th 2009

1. Police Officers in Schools  TPACs letter
2. The effectiveness, or not, of police cameras
3. Crime stats across the country
4. Schertzer case appealed
5. Love those Danish police

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 46, March 26, 2009.

March 26th 2009

1. Brief to Independent Police Review Organization
2. Police making bigger bucks
3. Toronto police budget, letter to city council
4. Law Enforcement Accountability Project
5. Status quo on Tasers
6. Toronto Life documents the Schertzer case


Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 45, February 9, 2009

February 9th 2009

1. Making police data public
2. Policing Toronto subways
3. The release of non-crime information
4. Minor charges clog courts



Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 44, January 14, 2009

January 14th 2009

1. The future of policing for Toronto?
2. Testing TASERS
3. Toronto 2009 police operating budget
4. Vaughan joins Police Board
5. Salary settlement

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 43, November 2008

November 3rd 2008

In this issue:
1. Province pours millions into Toronto police force
2. Police in Schools
3. Taser reporting
4. SIU report
5. Environmental Scan

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 42, June 30, 2008

July 2nd 2008

1. What about those guns?
2. Moving backwards on sexual assaults
3. Waiting for changes to the police complaints mechanism
4. Police in schools

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 41, April 15, 2008

April 15th 2008

1. Torontos TASER protocol
2. Expanding the Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams
3. Impressive police salaries

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 40, March 6, 2008

March 5th 2008

1. Taser news  a delay or a victory?
2. Death in a park
3. Police checks and providing information for employers
4. Not getting data on what police do
5. Police and kids in the park



Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 39, January 21, 2008

January 21st 2008

In this issue:
1. Forum on Tasers, February 6
2. Taser International comes to Toronto
3. Police shift work to shift?
4. Dealing with perpetrators of woman abuse




Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 38, November 29, 2007.

November 29th 2007

In this issue:
1. Taser problems
2. Missing the taser alternative, again
3. 2008 police budget
4. The police chief writes his story
5. Intersection watch

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 37, September 27, 2007

September 27th 2007

1. Counting the guns in Toronto
2. Personal information released by police
3. Police Association challenges name tags
4. Crime as a provincial election issue
5. Taking home big pay
6. Latest crime statistics in Canada - crime is down
7. A public forum on policing?

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 36, June 28, 2007

June 28th 2007

1. The Ontario Ombudsman reviews the SIU
2. Fantino speaks his mind, and the investigation begins
3. Truth not Tasers
4. Lets not debate police issues
5. Searching for head of new complaints agency

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 35, May 14, 2007

May 14th 2007

1. The problem of police records
2. Non-transparency
3. Increasing user of tasers in Toronto
4. Breaking the bank on cameras

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 34, February 21, 2007

February 21st 2007

1. Police Complaints Bill 103 at Committee
2. The sorry state of police complaints in British Columbia
3. Closing the information door at police headquarters
4. Police have a hand in appointing judges
5. Colliding police cars

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 33, January 8, 2007

January 8th 2007

Special issue on Bill 103, the proposed police complaints process
1. Public hearings on Bill 103
2. Commentary on Bill 103

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 32, Dec. 20, 2006.

December 20th 2006

1. Bill 103, a new police complaints commission
2. A new police program: 25 and out
3. Corruption charges within the Toronto Police Force
4. 2007 police budget
5. Policing the RCMP

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 31, Sept 29, 2006

September 29th 2006

1. Questions for municipal candidates
2. Toronto Police force expands
3. The danger of complaining about police activity
4. Ending the suspension payout
5. Race and police use of force

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 30, July 28, 2006

July 28th 2006

1. Ending Racial Profiling
2. Name Badges or Not?
3. Leadership of the Police Association

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 29, May 24, 2006

May 24th 2006

1. Taser use increases
2. Hiring a police force that looks like Toronto
3. Its hard being on camera
4. Out of jail and onto the street

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 28

April 27th 2006

1. The new Police Complaints Process
2. Small Claims Court Justice
3. Fencing them in
4. Updates: the Wyann Ruso and Jeffrey Reodica cases
5. Reviewing Civilian Oversight

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 27

March 17th 2006

1. Police horses
2. Targeted TAVIS
3. Taser use in Toronto
4. A policy to reduce strip searches
5. Political Police in Ottawa
6. Wyann Ruso settlement

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 26

February 8th 2006

1. Ending gun violence?
2. Some figures on death by guns
3. TPAs continuing confrontational tone
4. Alarming strip search figures in Toronto
5. Wanted: a new complaints procedure

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 25

December 22nd 2005

1. Large increase in police budget
2. Moving slowly on racial profiling
3. The unnoticed pepper spray
4. The case for Wyann Ruso

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 24

November 28th 2005

1. Board/Association Labour Settlement
2. Helicopters for the Police?
3. Whatever happened to the Lesage recommendations?
4. New City of Toronto legislation
5. Gun violence and youth in Toronto
6. Wyann Rusos wait

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 23

October 21st 2005

1. Toronto police force grows again
2. New strip search policy
3. Data bites from the police
4. Police officer convicted of assault
5. Job action

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 22

September 26th 2005

1. Gun violence in Toronto and public response
2. Police spending set to increase  again
3. SIU Annual Report
4. Strip Search, the mystery
5. Better Policing for Toronto seminar: a summary

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 21

July 22nd 2005

1. Better Policing for Toronto  a day-long seminar
2. British Government restricts use of tasers
3. Towards a new police complaints system
4. New Provincial appointee to the Toronto Police Service Board

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 20

May 25th 2005

1. Domestic Violence and the police response
2. Police Complaints Report: status
3. The unmade appointment
4. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 19

April 27th 2005

1. New police leadership comes only from within
2. Settling legal claims for a pretty penny
3. The tragic fate of suffering a mental crisis in public
4. LeSage recommendations on police complaints
5. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 18

March 16th 2005

1. The next Toronto Chief of Police
2. Two police approaches to people in crisis
3. Name Badges for Toronto Police
4. Finally a Better Strip Search Policy
5. Well Paid Police
6. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 17

February 25th 2005

1. Second thoughts on strip searches
2. Will the Board buy 500 Tasers?
3. Sexual assault
4. Up and Out for the Chief
5. Community Statement concerning the expected LeSage recommendations
6. Blink: high speed chases and more
7. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 16

January 24th 2005

1. Failures in Sexual Assault investigations, again
2. Police-related deaths
3. Vacancies at the top
4. Mandatory testing for officers in high risk positions
5. Subscribe to the Bulletin.

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 15

December 1st 2004

1. Prospects for the new Toronto Police Services Board
2. TASERS on hold
3. A new commitment to community policing?
4. Policing priorities in Toronto
5. 2005 police budget
6. Welcome new appointment to OCCOPS
7. Most recent police statistics
8. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 14

November 1st 2004

1. Making community policing a priority
2. The Police Board evolves
3. .Appointing a new chief
4. Nameless in T.O.
5. Police database off-base
6. An Office of the Citizen Advisor?
7. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 13

September 1st 2004

1. Police and Demonstrations: Complaint Validated
2. The continuing Fantino saga
3. Limited Freedom-of-Police-Information
4. Review of strip search policy
5. A Black police woman speaks out
6. TPAC Survey

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 12

June 1st 2004

1. Chief Fantino's contract not renewed
2. Board chair announces resignation
3. Police Complaints Review Begins
4. Public Meeting: "Recreation or Incarceration?"
5. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 11

May 1st 2004

1. Corruption Allegations in the Police Force
2. Public meeting in June: Recreation or Incarceration?
3. The Cost of Strip Searches
4. Chief Fantino's comments on Sex Offenders
5. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 10

April 1st 2004

1. Change and status quo at the Toronto Police Services Board
2. Strip Searches on the Agenda Again
3. Small Changes to Police Budget
4. Police Transparency
5. Police Complaints
6. Hiring a new Deputy Chief
7. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 9

March 1st 2004

1. Slowly uncovering the police budget
2. OCCOPS finds Gardner in breach of code of conduct
3. Defining a new complaints mechanism
4. Better ways of identifying police officers
5. Judge Ferguson's report finally public
6. Looking for police leadership - latest draft

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 8

February 1st 2004

1. Looking for a Chief, a draft for comment
2. New York crime declines as the number of officers decrease
3. Making public the detailed police budget
4. Mayor Miller's plan for community safety
5. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 7

January 1st 2004

1. The new Board chair and the reality of police culture
2. Central Field Command Drug Squad Controversy
3. Former Board Chair's hearing into discreditable conduct
4. Chief's employment contract in contention
5. Another mentally disturbed person killed by Toronto police
6. A decision on police endorsing political candidates
7. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 6

December 1st 2003

1. Reviewing the Police Budget
2. Creating a useful police complaints system
3. New Police Board members
4. Racial profiling - again
5. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 5

November 1st 2003

1. Civilian oversight of the police
2. Strengthening the Toronto Police Service Board
3. Police and mental health issues
4. More on political endorsements by the Police Association
5. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 4

October 1st 2003

1. Police intervene politically
2. Police Board responds to racial profiling
3. Recent police statistics
4. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 3

September 1st 2003

1. No-tech confessions
2. Kingston police collect racial data
3. Toronto Police Service Board without Gardner
4. Reflections of one Toronto Police Services Board member
5. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 2

June 1st 2003

1. Chair of Police Services Board steps aside
2. Auditing the Sexual Assault Audit - by Jane Doe
3. Book Review: "The Story of Jane Doe"
4. Policing data for Toronto
5. Subscribe to the Bulletin

Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 1

May 1st 2003

1. A dysfunctional Toronto Police Service Board
2. A Fresh Step for Policing
3. Policing demonstrations
4. Subscribe to this Bulletin

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