Halifax Police Chief Dan Kinsella is proof a fish rots from the head down

 On November 29, 2019, just two months ago, Halifax Regional Police Chief Dan Kinsella (pictured above) appeared at a resplendent podium emblazoned with the Halifax Police Coat of arms. He was dressed in police formal attire with a bunch of self-aggrandizing medals to give what spinmeisters described as an historic apology

Black Cop: My 36 Years in Police Work, and My Career-Ending Experience with Official Racism

 Black Cop By: Calvin Lawrence 272 pages • ISBN 978-1459414488 When Calvin Lawrence joined the Halifax City Police in 1969, he wanted to make a difference. There was growing tension in the city between the Black community and the police and Lawrence believed that as a Black police officer he

When is Police Use of Force Justified?

 I am a seventh generation Black Canadian. I was also a police officer for 36 years. I have worked in a city, rural, and federal environment. The growth of the Black Lives Matter movement has come out of the lack of information, accountability, and racist behavior by some individual police officers.