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Unfounded

Premise: the 2017 national investigation found police services dismissing sexual-assault reports as "unfounded" at rates far exceeding plausible false-report rates, triggering province-wide review commitments. Scope: this page will hold to account the two services whose records we have read in full — Durham and Thunder Bay — using published Statistics Canada figures. It is not a ranking of Ontario services, and no service will appear here on the strength of data we have not verified.

Framework page: ships when the baseline and current-rate tables are populated with sources, not before.

Build sequence

  • (1) Baseline — the published 2017-era unfounded rates for the two services in scope, from the original reporting's data tables.
  • (2) Current rates — the Statistics Canada founded/unfounded series post-2018, same two services, same definitions.
  • (3) Those services' announced reforms (case-review models, advocate review) and whether any published outcomes.
  • (4) The connective tissue to this site's core work: unfounded coding is a records decision — a clearance code on a GO file — which makes it FOI-measurable per service, and makes every resident's right to their own file the audit mechanism the reviews never institutionalized.

Cross-links: the Records Guide · Case Study 01.