policing

The Surrey Model of policing is rooted in expanding regimes of layered policing, which extends police surveillance, intrusion,...
Canadian police have continued their bloody ways through May 2021, with at least 10 people being killed or dying through police...
Racism and policing have gone hand and hand in the Canadian context—from the historical settler colonial violence of the RCMP...
Jeff Shantz May 19
Editor's note: this article draws heavily on previous reporting by Toronto Star reporter Wendy Gillis. It could be the setup for...
Jeff Shantz Apr 24
Excited delirium is one of the favored excuses used by police and their statist supporters when officers kill civilians. It is an...
Jeff Shantz Feb 16
The notion of “excited delirium” makes its appearance in medical contexts almost exclusively as justification for police killings...
Jeff Shantz Feb 9
Car chases are a staple of action flicks (and the copaganda glorification of cops) over generations of movie making. Some movies...
Jeff Shantz Jan 27
In his famous 1970 play, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Italian playwright Dario Fo examines the farce of a prisoner...
Jeff Shantz Jan 19
Claire Bodkin and Sara Alavian are both physicians in Hamilton, Ontario. They are also part of an ad hoc group of health workers...
Scott Neigh Jan 19
This past year has seen a perhaps unprecedented movement focusing attention on police killings in Canada. Much has rightly been...
Jeff Shantz Jan 13

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