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Jun 9 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
From Vancouver to Iqaluit to St. John’s, N.L., a new Torstar investigation has identified cases of police brutality, callousness and ignorance among officers who don’t appear to understand suspects’ rights.

This is #Unchartered⬇️
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In multiple cities, after serious breaches were repeated by officers in successive cases, judges are upbraiding entire police forces for “systemic” Charter violations within their ranks.
thestar.com/news/investiga…
Torstar, with the assistance of Western University’s law school, has identified more than 600 court rulings in the past decade where judges found that officers committed serious Charter violations.
thestar.com/news/investiga…
Torstar found these scathing rulings came down at a rate of twice per week from 2017 to present.

Yet, in many of these cases, what happens in the courtroom never reaches the police station.
thestar.com/news/investiga…
“I’m never told anything after I’m done testifying,” one constable testified.

“So that if a judge finds that there’s been a violation of Charter rights, you aren’t notified?” a defence lawyer asked.

“That’s correct.”
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The lack of information flowing to police forces raises the question: “How could any action be taken? How could there be any accountability?” said human rights lawyer Sunil Gurmukh.
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Toronto Police Service was unaware of 94 cases where judges found officers committed serious Charter breaches until Torstar told the force about the rulings, which is more than two-thirds of cases our reporters identified

Dive into part 1 of #Unchartered:
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