To Serve and Connect

 Story and photos by Noah Richardson / Feature image: Const. Dawn Neilly-Sylvestre, a community police officer with the Ottawa Police Service stands in her office at the Wellington Community Police Centre in Hintonburg. When Wayne Rodney was a kid growing up in the Ottawa community of Hintonburg there was still a

The Ottawa Police: A Police Service in Crisis

 The recent death of Abdirahman Abdi by two Ottawa Police officers is a huge stain on the City of Ottawa. Why is it that the Ottawa Police were not able to arrest an unarmed man without killing him?  There is no logical or rational explanation to account for this man’s

Why Police Fear Evidence-Based Research

 While almost every sector of society in the 21st century recognizes the importance of evidence-based decision making, police organizations are caught up in outdated policing approaches that are devoid of empirical evidence.  The major reason police are so resistant to the new regulations on carding announced by the provincial government