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John Tory has an opinion about police carding, which is that he has no discernible opinion

By Steve Kupferman
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At a Wednesday summit on black issues where new police chief Mark Saunders (who is black) came out firmly in favour of continuing police carding, John Tory didn’t articulate quite as clear a stance. The mayor, who sits on the police services board and voted in favour of its new and not-so-improved carding policy, gave this inscrutable quote to reporters: “I completely accept the fact that the system as has been, the system which was in place, combined with inadequate framing, which I think is a major shortcoming we’ve had in the system, frequently produced unjust, discriminatory consequences for black young men in particular…The policy we recently approved was not only the best we could do at that time, but it was better than no oversight, no policy and procedure.” What?

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