‘Nazi’ listed as an identifiable victim group in Toronto Police’s 2009 hate crime stats report

By: Contributor · May 10, 2010 · Filed Under Criminal Law, Diversity in Law, Ethics · 1 Comment 

In the article below Karolyn Coorsh shares some mind-blowing news about the latest act of incompetence by Toronto’s finest. This is yet another bizarre act where Toronto cops are upside down and inside out in their approach to dealing with bias crime in the city. It comes on the heels of an ongoing civil case by a young Jewish lawyer in the city who is suing the Toronto Police Service for defamation after they incorrectly classified him as a nazi when speaking to staff at York University (where he was a student). It is also on top of complaints raised by anti-fascist / anti-racist activists in Toronto between 2004-2006, who reported being harassed by, of all people, members of the hate crimes unit of the Toronto Police Service. Similar complaints were also raised in 2007.

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Hate crime in London, Ontario

By: Law is Cool · November 11, 2009 · Filed Under Civil Rights, Criminal Law · Add Comment 

Assault a hate crime

A woman had her head covering torn off and was pelted with anti-Arab slurs in an attempted stabbing London police are treating as a hate crime.

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