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Led by a Black woman chief, Waco, Texas, is among a growing number of North American departments who’ve pledged to hire dramatically more female cops, in part to reduce the use of force. Will it work? → Read More
“Straight down the rabbit hole I went,” Nathaniel Veltman said, describing how he came to violence in a statement to police citing a series of white-nationalist ideas and conspiracy theories. → Read More
A Toronto police tribunal previously cleared Const. Adam Lourenco of wrongdoing for pointing his gun at the unarmed “Neptune Four” teens in November 2011. That ruling was overturned in an appeal decision released this week. → Read More
From first-timers to veterans of the annual parade, participants and marchers turn out to show their support — and be supported → Read More
Annual downtown parade draws thousands of cheering rainbow-clad revellers and marchers, including candidates for mayor in Monday’s byelection → Read More
In September 2020, now-former cop Lorenzino Censoni entered his station’s drug storage locker, tore into two evidence bags and ingested what he thought was cocaine — nearly dying of a fentanyl overdose just meters from the station. → Read More
Glasgow was once the “murder capital of Europe.” Today, its public health approach to crime has produced a sharp drop in homicides and is being adopted across the United Kingdom. Could it work here? → Read More
Consts. Brian James and Thomas Victor are facing professional standards charges for allegedly stealing two bottles of Johnnie Walker Black Label whisky that they’d seized during an arrest. → Read More
The act, which one officer testified he thought was “standard practice,” amounted to “deliberate suppression of evidence,” the judge found. → Read More
Veteran officer Const. Const. Boris Borissov is facing charges for allegedly stealing a luxury watch from a dead man’s home and a credit card off a deceased woman. → Read More
Const. Kehui Li admitted to telling his partner “I was so mad that I was going to shoot him in the head,” following a verbal dispute with a colleague. → Read More
“Posing for a picture with a candidate is political code for showing your support,” said Toronto lawyer Jack Gemmell. → Read More
Mark Saunders would be a new kind of mayor in a city long helmed by lawyers and businessmen, but the former chief’s campaign raises new questions — and old baggage. → Read More
Const. Firouzeh Zarabi-Majd views herself as an “advocate and a whistleblower,” her lawyer has said. → Read More
The Ministry of the Solicitor General initially denied the Star’s freedom-of-information request to access to the files, citing, in part, the serial killer’s privacy rights. → Read More
The 14-year veteran with Toronto police’s 41 division has been suspended with pay. → Read More
A never-before-seen OPP report — 90 per cent redacted — is offering new insights into the fallout from a series of officer thefts that continue to affect Toronto drug prosecutions. → Read More
Among them: 23-year-old Daniella Mallia, who called Toronto police just three days before she was allegedly murdered by her ex-boyfriend. → Read More
“There is no direct evidence that suggests that Mr. Yatim wished to end his life by way of a confrontation with police,” the coroner wrote. → Read More
Sixty-nine people were killed by police in Canada last year, a record that continues a sharply rising trend in recent years, according to new research by the Tracking Injustice project. → Read More