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Racialized communities

Scope: two police services, not the province. This page will cover race-, colour- and ethnic-origin-grounded matters within the corpora we have read in full — Durham Regional Police (60 decisions) and Thunder Bay Police (57 decisions) — outside the Indigenous-specific page. It is not a provincial analysis and will not be presented as one. The wider provincial index (1,734 decisions) is a list of citations, not read texts; any province-wide claim would require a full-text pass we have not done.

This is a framework page: no findings ship until the underlying coding is complete. The build sequence below is the publication gate, visible so readers can hold us to it.

Build sequence, in order

  • (1) Grounds coding across the two full-text corpora (Durham, Thunder Bay) → how many matters plead race, colour or ethnic origin, and in which social area.
  • (2) Outcome coding — do race-grounded claims reach merits at different rates than other grounds?
  • (3) Representation overlay.
  • (4) The jurisprudence spine (Phipps, Pieters, Maynard) as reader orientation — cited as law, not as data about services we have not read.
  • (5) Featured matters selected from text-verified files only.

Publication rules: no claim rests on surname inference; grounds come from pleadings as recited in decisions; no rate is published for any service whose decisions we have not read in full; per-capita comparisons exclude services under 200,000 population. This page ships when (1)–(3) are coded, not before.