Moving goal posts?
Your article describes TPS's historical relationship with communities...it's not about hiring practices.
exactly. But there is no doubt that there is systemic racism against blacks in Toronto and other police forces. Maybe it is learned from on the job experience or maybe cops just hate blacks in general and want to oppress them as a race.
As for the 1.7% figure.
I'm confused as to if that was a percentage of how many black police officers that applied for promotion were promoted as I think
@Frankfooter and
@Kautilya might be (correctly) suggesting.
And if so, what does that mean in absolute numbers?
Or, 1.7% is the percentage of new hires that are black?
I don't know.
But in trying to figure it out, I found that TPS only hires 1% of the applicants across the board. Police forces are having a hard time hiring. It's a pretty shitty, stressful, thankless job with lots of risk and only attracts a pretty narrow window of society. I may be generalizing here but my impression is that the so-called "black community" expresses pretty negative views of police and anyone involved with them. I wonder what kind of black individual would add possible social ostracization to the downsides of becoming a police officer in the first place? I have and do date black girls and although
they are obviously very accepting of me being white, by and large, they say their families would frown upon bringing me to meet their mother. Maybe because I'm often more than their age too!
Police forces around the Greater Toronto Area are preparing for 2024 with some concerned that attracting new police officers has never been harder.
globalnews.ca
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"In 2022, for example, the Toronto Police Service received 3,370 applications and hired just 335 officers.
“We only take the most competitive and qualified candidates,” the Toronto police spokesperson said."
The overall number of applications to become a police officer in or around Toronto over the past five years appears to have dropped slightly, although thousands still apply every year.