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Data shows that police-involved deaths in Canada are on the rise

19th April 2023

Andrew Crosby, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Waterloo

ANALYSIS: New data published by Canada’s Tracking (In)Justice project suggest that the average number of police-involved deaths each year between 2011-2022 rose by two thirds, compared to the annual average figure for the previous decade; project members Andrew Crosby, Alexander McClelland and Tanya L. Sharpe believe that the increase, together with the racial disparity and jurisdictional variations within the figures, support calls for greater accountability, transparency and scrutiny of police conduct in Canada.

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Andrew Crosby is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo, with a PhD in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. His research engages with various themes relating to housing justice and policing, including settler-colonial urbanism, the financialization of rental housing, insecurity governance, gentrification, social movement mobilization, and tenant resistance. He is co-author of Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State (2018, Fernwood).