Boynton: This is part of a conversation with his team and a variety of community groups involved in providing supports. But then when we engage with them, we find out that this type of thing has happened before. It's just the supports weren't in place, that the trust wasn't in place for them to report those types of things. Q: What factors have to be present for police to prosecute hate? Friesen: "There's three designated hate crimes in the Criminal Code under Sec.
Those have to do with advocating genocide, the wilful promotion of hatred and inciting hatred. If it's not contained under one of those offences, we have to look elsewhere in the Criminal Code and where we find that is If they've affected a crime or motivated a crime, they can be used by the Crown for the purposes of sentencing, aggravating sentencing.
Q: What challenges do police services face when they have to investigate and prosecute incidents involving hate or racial crimes? Friesen: One challenge is remaining unbiased. These things, these incidents, they affect the community in profound ways, whether it's cultural or religious … and we're not blind to that. So, when we launch an investigation, we have to ensure that we are staying unbiased to the circumstances involved or the evidence that's present … It's a huge conversation right now.
Boynton: There's another challenge from his team's perspective. Q: There are some communities that have fraught relationships with police services. Did you ever have to navigate that? To me, trust is something that takes time. And so as we engage closely with different community groups and sort of show them how committed we are to getting this right, that over time that will have a cascading effect so that we have not only us engaging with diverse community groups in a sense to have them trust us, but that diverse community leaders … will also be talking to the community saying, you know what, WRPS is committed to these types of things and you can call them and talk to them and they will make a thorough investigation to make sure that the totality of what's happened is uncovered and the appropriate steps are taken.
Q: What role does the police service have then in proactively tackling hate and racially motivated crime in the region?
However, Statistics Canada also said these public health restrictions pushed Canadians to turn to the internet for many aspects of their lives. This, according to the researchers, resulted in a rise in internet-related crimes, while also perpetuating family and domestic violence.
Experts like Mohammed Hashim, executive director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, say more needs to be done to combat hate online before it snakes its way into the real world — and the pandemic only emphasized this. The data for shows Ontario saw the largest increase in hate crimes at incidents. British Columbia followed at hate crime-related incidents and Alberta saw an additional Police-reported hate crimes against Black people rose by 92 per cent with incidents, while hate crimes targeting East or Southeast Asian people rose by per cent at incidents.
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Celestini said it was unsurprising that the idea of a scapegoat proliferated online, as many Canadians were forced to prioritize social media as a social setting while in isolation.
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