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Law Enforcement Data and Transparency Project – Tracking (In)Justice
There is no sustained civil society or government body keeping track of police-involved deaths or deaths in custody in Canada. Independent academics have attempted to keep track of deaths in custody, families and friends of victims of police killings have tracked deaths in their communities, and journalists have reported on police-involved deaths, and occasionally relevant statistics are released in reports from various oversight bodies. But it remains there is no publicly available, verified, sustained, and comprehensive source for this information. The lack of data prevents researchers, policy-makers, advocates, and communities most impacted by police violence from answering basic questions about police use of force, police-involved deaths, and deaths in custody. Building on past initiatives, we created this database to track information and fill this gap so that others could use it for analysis, policy work and to effect change.