Systemic Bias vs Implicit Bias: Why the Difference Matters When Reviewing the Report by the Ontario Human Rights Commission on Racial Profiling by the Toronto Police Services

The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) <a href="http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/news_centre/ohrc-interim-report-toronto-police-service-inquiry-shows-disturbing-results" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">released an interim report in December 2018</a> looking at racial profiling and discrimination by Toronto police toward the city’s black community. The results are dire. OHRC found that: <ul> <li>Between 2013 and 2017, a Black person was nearly 20 times more likely than a White person to be involved in a fatal shooting by the Toronto Police.</li> <li>Despite representing only 8.8% of Toronto’s population, Black people made up approximately 30% of police use-of-force cases that resulted in serious injury or death, 60% of deadly encounters with Toronto Police, and 70% of fatal police shootings.</li> </ul> The joint <a href="http://www.tpsb.ca/mmedia/latest-news-release" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">response from the Toronto Police Service</a> (TPS) and the Toronto Police Service Board (TPSB) was good. They acknowledged that “bias is impossible to deny, but it must never be accepted as inevitable,” took responsibility for the findings in the report, and made a committment to do better. <a href="https://leesareneehall.medium.com/systemic-bias-vs-implicit-bias-why-the-difference-matters-when-reviewing-the-report-by-the-e2fdd8da6574">Website</a>