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POLICE patrols have been secretly cut while the Bracks Government has been telling Victorians more police are being put on the beat.
A Herald Sun investigation has found 750 officers -- one in 10 -- have been taken off general duties at police stations in the past two years.
Premier Steve Bracks and Police Minister Tim Holding have repeatedly said that hundreds of extra police were being put on the streets to boost public safety.
Mr Bracks said at a police graduation last month that his Government had fulfilled a pledge to put "a total of 1400 extra police on the b... Read more
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08 December 2006
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Intercultural group releases s
A young black man spits on the ground as he leaves a métro station and is immediately accosted by security agents demanding to see his papers. Angry words are exchanged, the police are called in.
In a separate incident, young black men report being in a public park when police begin to film them with a video camera, with no apparent motive or complaint to investigate.
These are just two “isolated” but worrisome examples of racial profiling uncovered by the Intercultural Council of Montreal in its 18-month study of the phenomenon, which it says is on the rise in Montreal.
Defined by the American Civil Liberties Union as any police or private security practice in which a person is treated as a suspect because of his or her race, ethnicity, nationality or religion, racial profiling is not surprisingly more prevalent in Montreal’s ethnically diverse neighbourhoods – St. Michel, Côte des Neiges, Little Burgundy, for example.
But the authors of the report, which was made public Friday, were scant on details and on numbers – they couldn’t say by how much complaints to the police ethics commission had increased, for example.
Nor could they say just what the Montreal police might do with the council’s 22 recommendations, presented the day after the police announced its own three-year plan for combating racial profiling, a plan developed without consulting the council.
“We’re still waiting to see the plan,” said Frantz Benjamin, president of the ICM.
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