Racial profiling is systemic problem in Montreal police, judge rules

Advocates say profiling ‘characterized many arrests’ as judge awards millions in damages in class-action lawsuit

Racial profiling is a systemic problem in the Montreal police force, a Quebec judge has ruled, as she awarded damages in a class action lawsuit that advocates call a “decision that meets with reality”.

Justice Dominique Poulin found that the city bore responsibility for racial profiling committed by its police officers and was obliged to compensate those affected. Continue reading...