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Changes Planned for Racial Profiling Article
I plan on making some edits to the original article by first expanding on the article's segment on introducing the topic racial profiling in Canada. There is some but relatively little content. Therefore I want to further investigate and add any potential issues regarding racial profiling in Canada. Furthermore, there are some issues with the formatting of citation in the article I am going to correct. Furthermore, I also wanted to look into the connections between political influences and racial profiling in Canada.

Current In-Article Section Regarding Racial Profiling in Canada *Not my own work*
Accusations of racial profiling of visible minorities who accuse police of targeting them due to their ethnic background is a growing concern in Canada. In 2005, the Kingston Police released the first study ever in Canada which pertains to racial profiling. The study focused on in the city of Kingston, a small city where most of the inhabitants are white. The study showed that black skinned people were 3.7 times more likely to be pulled over by police than white skinned people, while Asian people were less likely to be pulled over than whites or blacks.[43] Several police organizations condemned this study and suggested more studies like this would make them hesitant to pull over visible minorities.

Canadian Aboriginals are more likely to be charged with crimes, particularly on reserves. The Canadian crime victimization survey does not collect data on the ethnic origin of perpetrators, so comparisons between incidence of victimizations and incidence of charging are impossible.[44] Although aboriginal persons make up 3.6% of Canada's population, they account for 20% of Canada's prison population. This may show how racial profiling increases effectiveness of police, or be a result of racial profiling, as they are watched more intensely than others.[45]

In February 2010, an investigation of the Toronto Star daily newspaper found that black people across Toronto were three times more likely to be stopped and documented by police than white people. To a lesser extent, the same seemed true for people described by police as having "brown" skin (South Asians, Arabs and Latinos). This was the result of an analysis of 1.7 million contact cards filled out by Toronto Police officers in the period 2003 - 2008.[46]

The Ontario Human Rights Commission states that "police services have acknowledged that racial profiling does occur and have taken [and are taking] measures to address [the issue], including upgrading training for officers, identifying officers at risk of engaging in racial profiling, and improving community relations"[47] (Griffiths, 2008, p. 311). Ottawa Police addressed this issue and planned on implementing a new policy regarding officer racially profiling persons, "the policy explicitly forbids officers from investigating or detaining anyone based on their race and will force officers to go through training on racial profiling"[48] (CTV News, 2011). This policy was implemented after the 2008 incident where an African-Canadian woman was strip searched by members of the Ottawa police. There is a video showing the strip search where one witnesses the black woman being held to the ground and the having her bra and shirt cut ripped/cut off by a member of the Ottawa Police Force which was released to the viewing of the public in 2010[49] (CTV News, 2011).

Note: This is the portion of the article on racial profiling that currently talks about racial profiling in Canada.

Racial Profiling and the Mistreatment of Aboriginal Offenders Section
Among other minority groups in Canada, the aboriginal Canadian population has been subjected to various high profile incidences of racial profiling. In 2004, the Saskatchewan Commission on First Nations and Métis Peoples and Justice Reform publicized an inquiry where it found discontent among police officers due to the issue widespread racism in police services across the province. The inquiry took place following the trials of two Saskatoon police officers responsible for the Saskatoon freezing deaths where two aboriginal men froze to death after being stopped, detained, and then released in the remote outskirts of the city.

War on Drugs
Canada’s adoption of the War on Drugs in the 1980s created an upward trend of over-representation of visible minorities in the criminal justice system. In 1986 and 1987 it was revealed that 25% of all individuals being incarcerated locally on drug trafficking charges in Toronto were black whilst only making up little over 3% of the general population. In 1995, the Report on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System revealed that between 1986 and 1993 the incarceration rate of black Canadians alone had increased by 1164%. Much of the criticism drawn from the War on Drugs in combination with racial profiling in Canada has been on the focus of the initiative itself on domestic populations and eliminating low level distribution rather than providing regressive punitive measures to reduce drug use.

War on Terror
Following the string of terror attacks in on the United States on September 11, 2001 the Canadian government joined the United States in the War on Terrorism. The War on Terror in Canada has led to the targeted surveillance and sanctions of various members of Canada's Muslim and Arab community by various levels of the Canadian government. The increased surveillance of the movements and actions of Muslim and Arab Canadians has been controversial. Pieces of legislation like the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act have allowed certain agencies like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the Canadian Security Intelligence Service restrict the rights of individuals whom could be suspected to be aiding and abetting in terrorist activities. In 2004, a study of 467 individuals by CAIR-CAN was conducted to gain insight into government interactions with Muslim and Arab communities in Canada. 8% of the respondents reported being interviewed or cautioned by security personnel at both work and home while 43% reported knowing someone who had been contacted by Canadian security agencies.

The use of enforced restrictions and the suspension of constitutional rights, such as those on and individual's mobility has been done with little motivation or reason with the attitude of protecting the nation. However, the laws and sanctions imposed on the Canadian Muslim and Arab communities have hurt the ties and relationships have created disparity and mistrust of the government and security agencies.