'Target' black youth, councillor urges
- From: Jon <johnson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:27:08 -0700
'Target' black youth, councillor urges
Suggestion dismissed by top officer
FROM CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.thestar.com
A Toronto city councillor is floating a controversial idea on curbing
gun violence in the city.
Michael Thompson says police should be allowed to "target" young black
men at random as part of a crackdown on guns.
Thompson, who is black, says a large percentage of the guns being
utilized and a large number of people being killed are in the black
community, so there's a need to target people in the community.
But Thompson adds that he is not calling for police to pull people
over just because they're black, but because gun violence is affecting
the black community.
Deputy police chief Keith Forde, who is also black, says chief Bill
Blair would "never, ever agree to that."
There have been 30 gun-related deaths in Toronto among the 44
homicides in the city so far this year.
In a new effort to reduce violence in the city, Blair announced
yesterday he is reassigning 100 officers to uniform duty.
They will join street patrol officers and provide a bridge until 96
recruits graduate from police college next month.
Blair redeployed 50 officers to a problem area in the northwest
section of the city earlier this month.
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