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  1. Hi, it's Aaron Fraser.
  2. You talk about racial profiling in policing.
  3. So when we talk about racial profiling, we have to
  4. understand it as part of a larger issue of institutional
  5. racism. And when we look at racial profiling on its
  6. own and then its connection to institutional racism, we have
  7. to understand this idea known as the criminalization of Race,
  8. which comes from the history of African Americans in the
  9. United States.
  10. Post Civil War 18 90 Census, uh, and crime statistics
  11. showed that African Americans engaged in more crime and we're
  12. in prison, and more of them were in prison.
  13. And social scientists concluded that this meant black people are
  14. prone to criminality.
  15. In Canada.
  16. We tend to think we're better with race, but river,
  17. not. This is what Robert Maynard calls our national mythology
  18. of benevolence, of tolerance.
  19. We have to understand that our history with indigenous people,
  20. especially residential schools, the colonial trauma that they have that
  21. indigenous foods have has left them largely disadvantaged, and then
  22. we continue to penalize them for it.
  23. We're so there's this idea that we have to think
  24. about racial profiling as a tool of continuing colonialism with
  25. law enforcement in Canada.
  26. In its history, the RCMP, which was originally the Northwest
  27. Mounted Police, used to enforce policies of colonials and with
  28. indigenous people and began the trend and history of penalizing
  29. them for any kind of resistance to that.
  30. So what is racial profiling?
  31. Well, here's a definition that helpful one from the Interior
  32. of Humanoids Commission.
  33. You can pause and read that, uh, what it comes
  34. to data in Canada.
  35. Unlike the US, we do not have a systematic collection
  36. of publicly available, race based data at any level, so
  37. were largely dependent on qualitative data.
  38. So survey data.
  39. So the testimonies of racialized individuals in their experiences with
  40. law enforcement on this is actually seem to be highly
  41. reliable method because it provides something that stats don't, which
  42. is the behavior at the time of his contact.
  43. And a lot of the data comes out of Toronto
  44. because of its large, multiple multicultural population that shows that
  45. black use tend to be drone more to being detained
  46. by police, and black people are more likely to stop
  47. in question by committees in comparison to other ethnicities.
  48. The indigenous impact when it comes to racial profiling, well
  49. ethno Cultural Council of Calgary did a survey study, and
  50. one testimony was of a man who wasn't indigenous, who
  51. said he was mistaking of buying it to be a
  52. native guy by police, and they use excessive force.
  53. They realized him and they left him bleeding in the
  54. street. So I just kind of a small indication of
  55. how things people have been are seeing in Canada and
  56. tend to be even though they've been here before.
  57. Everyone else treated worse even than foreigners sets Canada from
  58. Prezi, 17 18.
  59. Indigenous population.
  60. General population of Canada was 4% indigenous, but made up
  61. 30% of provincial prisons and 29% of federal prison.
  62. But this is a very good indication of how the
  63. social disadvantage of indigenous people has brought them into regular
  64. contact with the criminal justice system.
  65. What is it steak in this issue?
  66. While there's a human cops, psychological, mental health eyes negatively
  67. impacted their those individuals who were racialized and feel that
  68. they're cut the color of their skin is going to
  69. give that caused differential treatment if they come into contact
  70. with the police.
  71. This affects self esteem, didn't do self respect here causes
  72. anxiety and fear, paranoia, paranoia and cultivated.
  73. With that, there's the physical health.
  74. And so, like the psychological impact moves into the body
  75. and their stress induced respiratory and heart condition that have
  76. been linked tiu racial profiling and negative experiences with law
  77. enforcement. And also there's the fear of physical abuse and
  78. excessive force.
  79. And, of course, the very worst of it.
  80. Loss of life with loss of Life.
  81. There's the instance of Philando Castillo, who in 2016 was
  82. pulled over and fucking Heights, Minnesota.
  83. And he was shot several times on what was claimed
  84. to be that he was not compliant and that the
  85. police officer felt that there was a reasonable threat to
  86. his life was contradicted by video evidence and the girlfriend
  87. in the vehicle who said that he complied and was
  88. even being honest about the fact that a firearm and
  89. a concealed carry permit.
  90. This is something known as blaming the victim.
  91. There's also the social cost of the police public relations.
  92. There's distrust.
  93. So police, sir, there's complete indifference of the police to
  94. do their job, provide safety and security.
  95. You don't trust them.
  96. Attention rise from this, we can see this for the
  97. l A.
  98. To 1992 riots.
  99. Uh, so police also become stereotype.
  100. Uh, the system breaks down and criminality is created by
  101. racialized individuals who resists because they feel like they're doing,
  102. um, discriminated against.
  103. And there's also this question of a subculture of policing
  104. that socializing socializes discriminatory police practices.
  105. So why does this matter to Christians?
  106. Well, it's part of the wider issue of institutional racism,
  107. and it hits two values of Christians against each other.
  108. It's idea being subject to the state and the model
  109. day in Genesis 1 27 Uh, Marshall L enought Marshall.
  110. In her reflection on black lives matter movement, she asked
  111. the question, Do we actually believe that all people are
  112. valuable? And are we willing to work to create societies
  113. that reflect this and that really setting something like racial
  114. profiling tests Christians commitment to a modern day?
  115. So the ethical issues from class that I will become
  116. the Baroness are human flourishing salvation, uh, Jesus powers Canosa's
  117. and adopting the greatest commandment hard.
  118. We Christian, willing to see that human flourishing applies to
  119. everyone that everyone deserves to be liberated by G.
  120. What Jesus has done through his life, definitely direction.
  121. And are we affirming injustice in the power structures of
  122. law enforcement and that also, that are we willing to
  123. People who are perceived as an enemy are really in
  124. love and stand up to them?
  125. As Jesus says in Matthew, 25 the least of these,
  126. the reality is Jesus.
  127. Mission is one of reconciliation and restoration.
  128. So as my artifact, I have curated a playlist of
  129. songs that for me help me reflect on these issues.
  130. And I hope that for you cannot reflect on and
  131. even come to your own ideas on theological conclusions and
  132. better questions to be asked when it comes to issues
  133. such as rates of profiling and the larger issue of
  134. institutional racism.