Experts, academics and survivors say police doing better shouldn’t be complicated
Constable Ashlee-Lynn Mailloux starts each shift by reading all the reports of hate crimes that have streamed in overnight from across Montreal. Then she contacts the victims to let them know one of the investigators in her five-person unit will call them back within a day or two.
But speedy responses and open lines of communication are not the norm. Over the past decade, according to survivors and community groups in many cities, it has been much more common for people who report hate crimes to be met with silence. The code identifies four types of hate crimes: one is mischief at religious or cultural sites, and the other three are hate propaganda offences .
better online speech regulations. The RCMP have since said their new task force will study the idea of adding a new class of separate hate-motivated crimes. Ottawa formed the country’s first hate crimes unit in 1993 to much fanfare. The force reported 176 hate crimes during the unit’s first year in operation. Nearly half of those were against Black people, a sergeant with the force told The Globe in February, 1994. During that inaugural year, the unit laid charges for 14 per cent of the offences it investigated as hate crimes. That rate is nearly double the 8 per cent Ottawa averaged over the period from 2013 to 2020.
offences. That’s a charge rate of 35 per cent – more than triple the force’s average in the years covered by The Globe’s investigation.
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