Reading Time: 5 minutes The ugly realities of humanity that we would rather believe belong in someone else’s world are the realities police officers encounter daily
Author: Anil Anand
The war on drugs is costly and off-target
Reading Time: 5 minutes A report on drug abuse released by police chiefs is less about reducing drug abuse and more about protecting police budgets and jobs
The ugly truth about democracy in decay
Reading Time: 4 minutes Perhaps it’s not democracy that has been corrupted, nor the democratic process, but rather the electorate itself
Race-based police data won’t end systemic issues
Reading Time: 5 minutes Examining use of force by race or counting arrests and charges by colour isn’t about to change police culture
Police failures begin with bad leadership
Reading Time: 4 minutes Policing, despite its facade of altruism and professionalism, remains incredibly insular, self-promoting and conservative
Bad leadership at the heart of police brutality
Reading Time: 5 minutes There’s no place for cowards, racists, sociopaths or murderers in a police department. And yet such officers are detected with alarming regularity
Abject failure in U.S., India in face of COVID-19 crisis
Reading Time: 5 minutes India has failed its citizens, especially the vulnerable. The U.S. has hobbled from one makeshift policy fiasco to another
We need closer oversight on high-tech police practices
Reading Time: 4 minutes Understanding and safeguarding personal freedom and civil rights is more critical than ever. So who is policing the police?
Can Canada lead a global push to eradicate poverty?
Reading Time: 6 minutes First we need to deal with our own problems, starting with the huge inequities among our Indigenous peoples
Bring back the Alberta Provincial Police
Reading Time: 5 minutes The RCMP hasn’t lived up to the standards Albertans expect. As more of the cost of policing falls on small communities, it’s time to act