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TORONTO - The Ontario Human Rights
Commission (OHRC)
announced Thursday it is launching a public interest inquiry into
racial profiling and discrimination within the Toronto Police
Service.
(Toronto Star)
TORONTO - As long as someone is not obstructing police from doing their job, witnesses have the right to photograph an officer doing their job in public. (Huffington Post)
TORONTO - Misconduct charges against 2 Toronto police officers who aggressively blocked a citizen from videotaping the arrest of 2 black minors have been stayed following a closed-door mediation process. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - The SIU alleges that Sgt. Christopher Heard drove a woman home in his police cruiser. On the way to her residence, the SIU alleges that Heard sexually assaulted the woman in the police car. (CBC)
TORONTO - A cleverly hidden compartment
inside a pickup truck wasn't enough to keep cops from finding a
massive stash of cocaine - larger than anything the Toronto drug
squad has ever seized before.
(Sun Media)
TORONTO - Under this system, the misbehaving officers do not face public hearings and their names are not released. Often times, their misconduct is also kept secret. And, after two years of good behaviour, the misconduct must be scrubbed from the offending officer's employment record, according to the Police Services Act, which governs policing in Ontario. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - During the arrest, the 24-year-old driver of the vehicle suffered a fracture to the bone around his right eye. SIU says an investigation found reasonable grounds to believe the officer committed a criminal offence. Sgt Darren Worth has been charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm. (CTV)
TORONTO - 4 Toronto police officers have
been arrested and charged with obstructing justice and perjury.
Const Jeffrey Tout, Det Const.
Fraser Douglas and major crimes officers Det Const Benjamin
Elliot and Sgt Michael Taylor from 55 Division all presented
differing versions of what happened during a traffic stop in January
2014.
(Toronto Star)
More charges
TORONTO - The Comfort Zone, an after-hours music club, is suing the Toronto Police Services Board and former chief Bill Blair for $23M, alleging 'abuse of power' and claiming police tried to push the club out of business. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Officers deployed Lonca and the man subsequently 'chopped' at the dog's neck. As a result of the cuts, he received multiple stitches. Phuoc Dang, 56, of Toronto is charged. (Toronto Star) MORE: Hacked with machete Police dog attacked
TORONTO - Rodrigo Hector Almonacid Gonzalez, 43, died in hospital after police were called to his west-end apartment building shortly after midnight on Nov. 6. (CTV)
TORONTO - The SIU said there are 'no reasonable grounds' to charge a Toronto police officer in relation to a shooting on Feb 18. David Andrew Doucette, 49, was fatally shot at 140 Spadina Rd at approximately 9:15pm. The SIU outlined what is believed to have happened that night. (CTV)
TORONTO - As of July 10, there have been 83 people killed or injured in shootings this year, up from 53 in July 2014. (CTV)
TORONTO - The 40-year-old man, a store employee, was shot twice in the abdomen near the Agincourt Mall. Police were dispatched to the store after receiving a call about a man cutting his own wrists and throat with a large butcher knife. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Ontario's police watchdog has
concluded there are no reasonable grounds to charge any Toronto
police officer with a criminal offence in the shooting of a
34-year-old man late last year.
(CP)
TORONTO - The Office of the Independent Police Review Director says Sgt Eduardo Miranda was not justified in deploying his stun gun 6 times on a man who, on most of these occasions, was 'prone face down on the ground and being physically controlled by 4 officers.' (CP)
TORONTO - Bethany McBride, who uploaded
the videos, said the man wasn't resisting the 2 transit inspectors
who initially detained him when 3 police officers also piled on top
of him.
(Huffington Post)
TORONTO - The SIU said around 3:15pm, 2 officers and a nurse - part of a police Mobile Crisis Intervention Team - responded to an apartment building on Sherbourne St. The team went to a unit on the 30th floor, and at some point, a man fell from the balcony to the ground below. The 31-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. (680 News)
TORONTO - On Sept. 20,
2016, Grayson Delong was shot in by an undercover Halton Regional
Police officer - moments after Delong allegedly shot Randall
Barrs outside his office in the Annex.
(CBC)
TORONTO - The attempted robbery happened shortly after 7am at the TD Canada Trust near The Queensway and Kipling Ave. One suspect managed to get away, while the other came face-to-face with police in the bank's parking lot, and was shot by police. (CBC) MORE: SIU investigating
TORONTO - The province's SIU is
investigating after a construction worker was struck and killed by a
vehicle that was being pursued by police.
(CTV)
TORONTO - The incident occurred of Wed, Sept 16. Edward Michael Skotnicki, 60, had allegedly stolen a car near the intersection of Bond and Shuter streets and was being pursued by two police cruisers. Officers at the scene discharged their weapons a total of 15 times after Skotnicki allegedly tried to hit one of them with the vehicle. Head of the Toronto Police Association confirmed that Const Tash Baiati has been charged under Police Services Act in connection with the shooting. (CTV)
TORONTO - At approximately 11am, police returned based on a call that a man had barricaded himself in an apartment. Inside the house they found a 32-year-old man. The SIU says the man was pronounced dead at the scene. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Police said a man had stolen a car and was being pursued by cruisers. Officers fired their weapons a total of 15 times, after the man in the vehicle allegedly tried to run one of them over. None of the bullets hit the suspect. Edward Michael Skotnicki, 60, had been charged (CTV)
TORONTO - The agency says a 45-year-old
woman was shot during 'an interaction' with the officers and was
taken to hospital with unspecified injuries.
(CP)
TORONTO -
In his unproven statement of
claim, Santokh Bola, 21, says he suffered serious injuries.
The incident in a west-end parking
lot on Nov 1 was caught on video by a bystander. (CP)
TORONTO - Ontario's SIU has cleared 2 Toronto police officers in the downtown shooting death of a man in 2013. The daylight standoff occurred shortly after noon on Nov. 13 in the area of Sherbourne and Wellesley streets, after police officers attempted to execute an outstanding arrest warrant for the man. (CBC)
TORONTO - The SIU has been called after a
34-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries when he was shot
by police.
Police initially received a call
around 8:30am about an armed holdup at a Sherbourne St convenience
store near Howard St.
(Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Const. Gary Gould, 33, was given 6 months' probation and ordered to pay a $50 fine for a December 2013 incident in which he assaulted a man who had been arrested, handcuffed behind his back and put in the rear seat of a police cruiser. (Toronto Star)
A recent study by Temple University researchers found that wearing body cameras was actually associated with a 3.64% increase in fatal shootings of civilians by police officers. The study suggests that police officers are actually more likely to pull the trigger if they have video evidence to support their use of force. (Zero Hedge)
TORONTO - Alok Mukherjee, chair of the Toronto Police Services Board, is stepping down after a decade on the board. He announced his resignation at a meeting board Thursday morning. (CBC)
Officers intimidated organizers
Chief gets nod on force review
TORONTO - A police task force released its long-awaited final report, describing it as an 'action plan' to bring about 'comprehensive and long-lasting change,' while reducing costs and rebuilding dwindling public trust in the Toronto Police Service and its 8,000 members. (Toronto Star)
TPS union advises officers to take action
Toronto violence: poverty, racism, mental health and ideas of masculinity
Mayor and council helped create the gun crisis
Police union uses billboard to slam mayor, police chief, and the chair of the TPS board
The way forward .pdf
A better idea than photo radar
How firefighters beat politicians
Paid police gigs face city review
TPS seeks $41M budget increase
TORONTO - The Ontario Human Rights Commission has filed a claim to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, alleging the Toronto force is discriminating against officers who develop PTSD then take their own lives, because their deaths are not recorded on the Toronto Police Memorial Wall. (Toronto Star)
What does NCR mean for Kachkar
TORONTO - Det-Const Remo Romano was on duty and driving an undercover pickup truck as part of a surveillance team when he hit Natasha Carla Abogado as she crossed St Clair Ave E at around 8pm on Feb 12, 2014. Court was told Romano was travelling 115 kilometres per hour in a 60-km zone, trying to catch up to and assist other members of his team. It was the third time the case was argued in front of a jury, each with different outcomes. (Toronto Star)
Officers facing disciplinary charges
Victim poster boy for gun violence
Officer cleared is charged again
Cop charged in attack on cyclist
Man shot by police dies in hospital
SIU probing fatal police car chase
TORONTO - A 60-year-old woman who apparently fell from a window in the
city's west end has died of her injuries.
According to the SIU officers found the injured woman between the
residence and another house shortly after arriving on scene.
(Toronto Star)
Officers cleared in tasing incident at hospital
Officer had use of force training
Final 50 seconds in slow motion
More instruction not the answer
Chief 'not privy to' any report
No officer wants to use deadly force
Police confront the mentally ill
Vigil and march draws hundreds
TORONTO - A Toronto cop accused of negligence causing death in a man's
suicide at High Park last winter was hit with a new charge.
Const Kyle Upjohn, 33, was charged with breach of trust in connection
to a man's death at the west end park on Feb 2.
He was also charged by Ontario's police watchdog in June with
criminal negligence causing death and failing to provide the necessaries of
life. (Toronto Star)
No charges for TPS officer who struck jaywalker
Allegations need independent investigation
50+
cops suspended with pay in ON
Complainant accused of perjury
Officer forced to reveal relationship
Officer demoted
Officer tried to obstruct probe
'Did not exist' video released
'Lied, exaggerated and colluded'
Police union funded assaulter's defence
TORONTO - More than 5 years after he gave the orders to 'kettle' protesters during the G20 Summit, Toronto police Supt. David (Mark) Fenton has been found guilty of 3 of 5 charges related to his role in the largest mass arrests in Canadian peacetime history. (Toronto Star)
Charge against Crawford tossed
Police trampled 'basic rights'
'Largest ever' police spy operation
Not guilty in G20 explosives trial
Women claim 'hairy-legs' profiling
Police want to keep G20 cameras
Protest groups infiltrated by police
Secret law used beyond its intent
Seized weapons not what they seem
TORONTO - Md Sumin Reaz was accused of a $3M credit card fraud in 2014, charges that were stayed 2 years later. Reaz filed a $10.3M lawsuit against Toronto Police and the investigating officers, claiming negligent investigation, malicious prosecution, unlawful arrest and detention and defamation. (Toronto Sun)
Province brands city a high-risk employer
TORONTO - 3 Toronto police officers have been found not guilty of sexually assaulting a female colleague after a night of partying and drinking. Leslie Nyznik, Joshua Cabero and Sameer Kara had pleaded not guilty in connection with the alleged incident on Jan 17, 2015. (CP)
TORONTO - Officials with the TTC are reviewing a video that surfaced on social media purporting to show its special constables punching 2 men at Union Station. (Global)
TORONTO - Former Toronto police officer Garnette Rose has launched a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario alleging he was discriminated against and had no choice but to leave the police service. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Police figures show that 31,072 people were strip-searched in 2010 - 85 a day - up from 29,789 the previous year. (CBC)
TORONTO - A
woman has won an acquittal on appeal, in part because police lied
about what had happened.
(Toronto Star)
GRAND CAYMAN - Former Toronto police officer Richard Hanna's international police career has come to a screeching halt in the Cayman Islands where he has been jailed for 15 months for stealing money from schoolchildren. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Former officer bilked school kids
`He made Toronto a safer city'
TORONTO - Even the police horses stood silent as pallbearers marched past them at the entrance to St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Scarborough. Bagpipes played "Amazing Grace" as eight officers hoisted the casket of former Toronto police chief Jack Marks onto their shoulders. (Toronto Star) MORE: Former police chief laid to rest
TORONTO - 5 former Toronto drug squad officers have been sentenced to 45 days of house arrest for their convictions in a police corruption trial. (Toronto Star)
Police 'unplugged' corruption probe
Police corruption case sent to trial
Suspended cop facing new charges
TPS bug
TORONTO - Secret recordings offer proof that Toronto police conducted illegal eavesdropping on a former police board chair. Then police chief Bill McCormack and Julian Fantino - superintendent of detectives at the time and later police chief and OPP commissioner - have repeatedly refused to say whether they requested or were aware of the surveillance.
Defending pulling legal support
TORONTO - Over red wine, pasta and other Italian fare, OPP Sgt. Mike Rutigliano, defence lawyer Gary Clewley, who had won the case, private investigator Bruce Murray and another defence lawyer, Owen Wigderson, joined Frank D'Angelo, who had just turned 50. (Toronto Star)
Ferguson report released
Justice Ferguson's comments to the Board .pdf (Feb. 26, 2004)