Carding

• Edmonton officers must record reason for collecting personal info due to change in EPS policy

  'Carding' or 'street checks' are names given to the practices of officers arbitrarily stopping someone to question them or collect their information.

  Crime

  Jan 19
  
• Call for consistency across B.C. on street checks following police watchdog report

  A man's complaint about being stopped and asked if he was "Abdul" by two officers in New Westminster, B.C., has prompted a call for provincewide consistency on street checks.

  Crime

  Nov 13, 2021
  
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• RCMP decides against apology to Black community for excessive Halifax street checks

  Halifax Regional Police apologized for the practice almost two years ago.

  Canada

  Sep 8, 2021
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• Alberta government introduces legislation to formally ban carding, regulate street checks

  The Alberta government introduced legislation on Wednesday that formalizes the ban on carding and reforms the rules of street checks.

  Crime

  Apr 8, 2021
• Lethbridge Police Service, local lawyer react to new provincial ban on carding

  "It's really up to the police to build that sense of public trust and responsibility, particularly with our Lethbridge police."

  Crime

  Nov 19, 2020
• Street checks down 48%, gun violence on the rise, Edmonton police tell commission

  The number of street checks done by officers, as well as the rising amount of gun violence in the city, was on the Edmonton Police Commission's agenda on Thursday.

  Crime

  Nov 19, 2020
• Vancouver Police Department responds to use of force, mental health call concerns

  The call to defund police, spending more of the police budget on other health and safety issues, spread across North American as people protested the police in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.

  Jul 16, 2020
• McMaster Students Union seeks firing of former police chief Glenn De Caire

  More than 5,500 people have signed a petition at change.org, supporting the student's union call for McMaster University to oust DeCaire.

  Crime

  Jun 16, 2020
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• The VPD has updated its ‘carding’ policy. Here’s what it means for you

  The new policy explicitly bans stopping someone based on identity factors and requires police to let subjects know they can walk away at any time.

  Jan 21, 2020
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• Halifax police apologize to black community for street checks

  Chief Daniel Kinsella says police are sorry for actions that have caused pain, mistreatment and victimization.

  Canada

  Nov 29, 2019