The not so Great Racism in Canada Thread

[Truenorth00]

We need to keep in mind the differences with respect to the history of policing between the two countries. In Canada, our national police force was effectively a frontier authority and paramilitary force. Beyond that we urbanized earlier in our history and went to city police forces. We never had segregation here either. Compare that to the US where the earliest police forces in the US that were fugitive slave capture outfits or anti-union organizations (Pinkerton). And then for most of the 20th century helped enforce segregation and Jim Crow laws against African Americans. That history most assuredly colours how disadvantaged minorities in the US view law enforcement.