The Canadian Press has found that of the 167 members involved in these units, 111 are former officers or have had a working relationship with police, and 118 of them are men
Every province but British Columbia also provided the number of investigators in their units who identify as a visible minority or person of colour. There are 20.
In the end, two retired police officers were charged. Both died before their cases finished in court. “It’s again the police investigating their own,” Picard says. “That’s totally unacceptable for many people. There is no faith, no trust coming from women.”The unit was recently tasked with investigating two recent police shootings of Indigenous people in New Brunswick, which doesn’t have its own independent investigative unit.
Civil rights groups and families have also criticized a lack of charges, and even less convictions, stemming from investigations by independent units.
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