81 Recommendations Flashcards
- City Council request the Toronto Police Services Board to direct the Toronto Police Service to implement a plan to equip all police officers with Body-Worn Cameras by January 1, 2021 and enact policies that ensure consequences for unauthorized de- activation or covering of the cameras.
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Systemic racism
When institutions or systems create or maintain racial inequity, often as a result of hidden institutional biases in policies, practices and procedures that privilege some groups and disadvantage others.
Guiding Principles
A Better Way Forward: Ontario’s
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August 10, 2020 from Jim Hart, Chair
Re: Police Reform in Toronto: Systemic Racism, Alternative Community Safety and Crisis Response Models and Building New Confidence in Public Safe
- Direct the Executive Director to:
a. Work with the Service, City Manager and other stakeholders to identify the categories of calls that might be addressed by a non-police response. (City Council #1; Board #4; MHAAP #26; ARAP #11)
Work with the City Manager, Government of Ontario, community based mental health and addictions service providers, organization representing people with mental health and/or addictions issues and other stakeholders to develop new and enhance existing alternative models of community safety response, including mobile mental health and addictions crisis intervention. (City Council #1 and 18; Board #4, MHAAP #25; ARAP #10)
c. Work with the Service, and others including the Auditor General, to identify non-core policing services that can be delivered by alternative service providers, as well as other opportunities for improved service delivery by the Service itself (subject to the requirement that provincial Adequacy Standards for policing continue to be met)
d. Work with the Service, and others including the Auditor General, to identify funding or areas of funding currently allocated to policing that can potentially be re-allocated to support alternative community safety models and/or fund other City of Toronto programming and services that contribute to community safety.
e. Work with the City of Toronto and the Service to develop community- based asset mapping to determine the most effective crisis response models that would work best for Toronto, including the services that currently exist that can support individuals in crisis. (MHAAP #5; ARAP #19)
f. Engage the Service to detail potential reductions to the Toronto Police Service budget that would result from any proposed changes to the current community safety response model, once the details of this alternative model are developed. (City Council #1)
g. EngageMHAAPandARAPintheaboveefforts.(CityCouncil#1;Board #4; ARAP #11; MHAAP #26 )
h. Engage the CABR Unit and other experts to ensure that an anti-Black racism analysis is employed in the development and implementation of any alternative models to public safety response. (CABR #18.2)
i. Provide an opportunity for broad community and public consultation in the above efforts. (City Council #1; Board #4; ARAP #11; MHAAP #26)
- Direct the Chief of Police to work with the Executive Director and Board Staff in the above efforts, including providing access to the Service Members, data and other resources necessary to perform this work.
- Direct the Chief of Police to report to the Board on the outcome of crisis calls made to the Service (e.g., referral to services, apprehensions, etc.) in 2019 and 2020, and going forward on an annual basis, for the city in aggregate and per police division. (MHAAP #5; ARAP #19)
- Direct the Chief of Police to prioritize and create a plan to implement, as soon as feasible, an immediate expansion of the MCIT program in partnership with existing community-based crisis services, including peer support, to meet current demands for mental health-related service calls, recognizing the need for the
New Mandate and Membership
At the same meeting, the Board approved 81 recommendations related to police reform that put into place a roadmap for comprehensive policing reform and include building new community safety response models, initiatives to address systemic racism and concrete steps to improve trust with our communities. In addition, a number of recommendations focused on ARAP directly, including a recommendation making ARAP permanent and building in certain requirements to its structure, and a recommendation naming us as its new Co-Chairs. ARAP will be mandated to advise and support the Board in relation to policing and racism, anti-Black racism an
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The Board held four full-day town hall meetings on July 9, 10, 15 and 16, 2020. These forums were created in response to the thousands of messages that the Board received in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, and related protests in Toronto and around the world.
The meetings
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Toronto Action Plan to Confront Anti-Black Racism; consultations and recommendations from the Board’s two advisory panels, namely the
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Anti-Racism Advisory Panel (ARAP) and the Mental Health and Addictions Advisory Panel (MHAAP); and relying on the expertise of the professional staff within the Board Office, who ensure that the Board fulfils its governance and oversight duties.
Referred Report
At its meeting of June 19, 2020, the Board received a report from the Chair entitled “Recommendations for the Board Related to Current Events” (Min. No. P89/20 refers). That report is attached as Appendix B. The report was drafted in response to recent events, including the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, and the tragic death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Toronto. These tragedies and lost lives have brought our city to engage once again in a critical conversation about the status quo in policing and the systemic racism that is evident in the current systems that respond to crises and ensure public safety in Toronto.
Following the release of the June 2020 report, we heard from members of the public, as well as members of both ARAP and MHAAP. They felt that further engagement was needed before the Board could consider any meaningful recommendations for reform.
Therefore, at its June 19, 2020, meeting, the Board decided to refer the report to the next Board meeting to allow for broader consultation with the public, and to receive advice from its advisory panels.
Toronto City Council Consideration of Changes to Policing
At its meeting of June 29, 2020, Toronto City Council considered a number of motions by councillors addressing policing in Toronto. Among those motions was agenda item CC22.2, a report by the Mayor entitled “Changes to Policing in Toronto”. The report was adopted with amendments. The decision of City Council comprises 36 items covering a number of areas touching on policing, public safety and crisis response in Toronto. The items are directed to a variety of stakeholders, including the Board. Attached as Appendix C are the items adopted by City Council.
Town Hall Meetings hosted by the Board
The Board held four full-day town hall meetings on July 9, 10, 15 and 16, 2020. These forums were created in response to the thousands of messages that the Board received in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, and related protests in Toronto and around the world.
The meetings followed an open format allowing the public to make submissions to the Board and providing the Board an opportunity to hear the voices of our communities and ask questions. The submissions covered a wide range of issues, including police accountability, police reform, and community safety priorities. Members of the public who could not make a live presentation at the town hall meetings were invited to provide a written or recorded statement on the Board’s website. Over
Ongoing Community Engagement initiatives
In 2018, after community feedback, the Neighbourhood Community Officer
(NCO) Program was enh
June 25, 2020 from Uppala Chandrasekera (former Board Member) and
Notisha Massaquoi, Co-Chairs of the Anti-Racism Advisory Panel
Re: Recommended Monitoring Framework for the Implementation of
the Recommendations Arising from the Inquest into the Death of
Andrew Loku
Andrew Loku
