MEDIA INDIGENA 283

“[Far from] ponies and fairy dust” / MI 283

ON THIS WEEK'S ROUNDTABLE:

How should we speak of safety in society? How ought we to understand and manage the origins of risk? And in doing so, where might we position police’s role in producing either? Depending on who you talk to, “experiences may vary.” Now a new report [PDF] out of Atlantic Canada’s largest urban centre proposes much less of a role for police in the larger justice equation—in some respects, no role at all. Prepared for no less than the Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, the report puts meat on the bones of the contentious concept of defunding.

Joining host/producer Rick Harp this week: activist, artist and scholar El Jones, Assistant Professor of Political and Canadian Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University, and one of the lead authors of Defunding the Police: Defining the Way Forward for HRM [Halifax Regional Municipality]. Also at the table this episode, Trina Roache, the Rogers Chair in Journalism at the University of King’s College.

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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:

• "The police are defunding themselves" Canada's National Observer

• Systemic racism exists in the RCMP, Commissioner Brenda Lucki says CBC News

• "Police union says cops can’t do their job without beating up Black people" Halifax Examiner

• RCMP Facebook group claims Colten Boushie ‘got what he deserved’ APTN Investigates

• Racism in the Ranks APTN Investigates

• "What is CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets)?" White Bird Clinic

• Hundreds gather in memory of Eishia Hudson, 16, who was fatally shot by Winnipeg police [in 2020] CBC News

• Family of Eishia Hudson files civil claim for wrongful death against Winnipeg police CTV News

• The Double Standards of Crime and Punishment The Canada Files

• Mapping Wage Theft in the Informal Economy Industrial Relations

• Wage Theft, The $50 Billion Crime Against Workers Working: Now and Then

• Canada should declassify, deconstruct and defund the RCMP Canadian Dimension

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