#Montreal #Equality #Respect RACIAL PROFILING: COALITION CALLS ON MONTREAL POLICE TO COLLECT RACE BASED DATA IN POLICE STREET AND TRAFFIC STOPS The coalition of organizations that had called for a moratorium on police street checks today enlarged its membership while calling for additional measures to combat what it sees as on-going racial profiling. The coalition today welcomed the Native Women’s Shelter into its ranks. The report on police street checks made public in October highlighted that indigenous women were stopped in Montreal’s streets eleven times more often than anyone else. Speaking for the Native Women’s Shelter, Coordinator Jessica Quijano, said that Indigenous women in Montreal indicate that street checks have not abated in Montreal since the motion presented by Councillors Marvin Rotrand, Giuliana Fumagalli, and Rosalie Filato was adopted at the November 18 City Council. “Indigenous presence is growing in Montreal. We must question if the SPVM is still effectively ignoring the unanimously adopted City Council motion calling for street checks to be halted except in exceptional situations,” said Ms. Quijano. The Coalition notes that the Toronto Police Services Board recently approved a new policy around the mandated collection of race-based data. Toronto Mayor John Tory called this decision by the Police Service Board a “landmark policy and a huge step forward.” In September 2017, la Commission permanente sur le développement social et la diversité montréalaise, ainsi que la Commission de la sécurité publique recommended the implementation by 2018 of a race data collection system for individuals stopped by the police. This has not yet been done. “There is no reason why a city like Montreal, which is as multiracial as Toronto, cannot do the same. We have to stop delaying race-based data collection as another way to hide or deny terrible racial disparities in street checks and traffic stops. Two city council committees recommended this back in 2017”,said Alain Babineau, CRARR's Advisor on Racial Profiling & Security. Quijano also pointed to the recommendations of Viens Commission, which looked to allegations of police mistreat of Indigenous women in Val-d’Or, Quebec, which includes the collection of ethno-cultural data that is already used in other provinces among the measures to counteract the systematic racism. “I believe it would be a promising course of action for restoring relationships with Indigenous peoples in Quebec. Truth and reconciliation require accurate data to document and end discrimination against Indigenous peoples,” Quijano added. Montreal North Borough Councillor Renee Chantal Belinga says that the recent admission by the SPVM of systemic bias while useful does not guarantee change. “We will need community mobilization and new tools such as a mandatory race-based data collection policy to provide clear indisputable evidence that will help decision makers in putting new policies in place,” Belinga said. A letter on behalf of the coalition has been sent to the city administration by Councillor Marvin Rotrand requesting it endorse a race based data collection policy. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK3ICoQnnbc

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