Despite growing calls for changes in policing, the number of shootings by officers in Canada remains too high, say criminology experts.
On-duty police officers fired at 64 people in Canada between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30 of this year, and 32 were killed. Seven were uninjured.
“I am deeply concerned by the unrelenting nature of this problem. There is nothing inevitable or natural about this problem,” said Temitope Oriola, an associate criminology professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and a former special adviser to the province in a review of its Police Act.
The Canadian Press tracked each shooting using
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