The Nova Scotia RCMP plans to formally apologize for its historical use of street checks, more than two years after the force said it was not planning to do so.
, more than two years after the force said it was not planning to do so, and more than four after a study found the practice unfairly targeted young Black men.
In order to “inform an apology,” it said the RCMP will be holding 14 community consultation sessions across the province, the first of which took place Monday night in Gibson Woods. Assistant Commissioner Dennis Daley, commanding officer of the Nova Scotia RCMP, is seen during an interview at RCMP headquarters in Dartmouth, N.S., Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022.Consultations are expected to wrap up in November and the apology itself is expected to come in 2024.
A provincially-commissioned study of street checks released by criminologist Scot Wortley in March 2019 condemned the practice by the Halifax Regional Police and the local RCMP — which polices the city’s suburbs — as targeting young Black men and creating a “disproportionate and negative” impact on African Nova Scotian communities.Those findings led to a public apology before several hundred people by Halifax Police Chief Dan Kinsella on Nov.
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