News 1. The Halifax police department has a crisis of legitimacy Is there an unusually large number of Halifax cops who are crooks? I suspect there is an institutional culture that looks the other way and avoids confronting official misconduct, and that institutional culture therefore actually encourages even more misconduct. But of course it’s a […]
There should be a moratorium on police checks: Morning File, Wednesday, January 11, 2017
News 1. Street checks Halifax councillor Lindell Smith says he has been stopped by the police often: “I’ve had issues where police followed me, or police have pulled me over and asked questions that really had nothing to do with what I was doing,” he said. “Of course your mind goes to, is it racism? […]