Craft Criminologist, small batch analyses of legal decisions and reasoning. Big fan of Baseball, often unhappy when not watching baseball.
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9 Dec 2024
Right, the guy who intricately planned and meticulously executed this murder is definitely going to keep hold of the gun...
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15 Nov 2024
I mean, this is a long-standing tradition in Ontario politics now. Steve Del Duca also ignored Metrolinx advice and demanded a station in his riding, and the Liberals made him leader of the party.
15 Nov 2024
A Ford government plan to build a new GO station beside a marquee development in Mississauga, first announced last year, disregarded advice from the province’s own transit planning agency, Global News has learned.
globalnews.ca/news/10864269/…
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Join us Wed Oct 23 at 12:30 pm as Prof Samantha J. Simon, Univ of Arizona presents "Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence" - All welcomeGet the details & register now! uoft.me/aXT
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#PoliceViolence #LawEnforcementTraining
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22 Sep 2024
I'm old enough to remember Doug Ford promising to move to Chicago if he lost the Toronto mayoral race to John Tory. These losers always spout off like this. It's like a kid in a school yard song they won't invite you to their birthday party.
19 Sep 2024
BREAKING: Trump family plans to Leave America If Trump Loses the Election.
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Join us Wed, Sept 18, 12:30 pm as @StaceyHannem Professor of Criminology and Cultural Analysis and Social Theory @Laurier presents "Trial by #Media: #MeToo, Media Logic, and Hierarchies of #Victims" --All welcome ➡️Get the details & register now! uoft.me/aRG
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Don't miss our first CrimSL Speaker Series talk on Wed, Sept 18, 12:30 pm! Join us for Prof Stacey Hannem of @Laurier presenting "Trial by #Media: #MeToo, Media Logic, and Hierarchies of #Victims" --➡️Get the details & register now!
crimsl.utoronto.ca/events/tr…
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22 Aug 2024
The collective noun for a group of academics is a Saunter.
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12 Jun 2024
How many times do we need to see our police abuse power, and reject any investigation until we say enough?
The SIU says two officers at the centre of the investigation into a fatal wrong-way crash on Highway 401 in Whitby earlier this year have not agreed to be interviewed or submitted their notes to investigators.
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13 Jun 2024
I don't comment too much on these, but the shamelessness and impunity displayed by these cops is disgusting. These are the armed agents of the state, who's actions deprived a baby and it's grandparents of their rights to life. They should be compelled.
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13 Jun 2024
We need changes to the police act and criminal code and recognition by the judiciary that the Charter is there to protect citizens from the state, not to protect state actors with legal and professional privilege from being held accountable for infringing people's rights...
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13 Jun 2024
So many police officers in my data do surrender to interview, notes, or both. At the very least, a trier-of-fact should be led to derive inferences about armed state agents who refuse to account for their violence. They need to explain why their violence was "reasonable".
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4 Jun 2024
How the hell do they justify buying AirPods with so many other wireless earbuds available at a fraction of the cost...?
How Toronto police have already spent $1.5 million on World Cup that’s two years away thestar.com/news/gta/staff-p… via @torontostar
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CrimSL's Prof Patrick Watson comments in "Jeffrey Reodica’s family continues calls for justice decades after fatal #police #shooting" @pgwphd
24 May 2024
Two decades after a Toronto police officer shot and killed 17-year-old Filipino-Canadian Jeffrey Reodica, his family continues to call for justice. toronto.citynews.ca/2024/05/…
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26 May 2024
I was 21 years old in the final year of my undergrad and I stood in my campus concourse with my mentor and a group of other students and said all of these things. I'm fact, I think I said "America must not retaliate"...
17 Oct 2023
Nobody said on 9/11:
- “America must retaliate proportionally.”
- “Both sides need to show restraint.”
- “Where's the proof of all the dead bodies?”
- “You are oversimplifying. There is context about the conflict you're ignoring .”
- “Let's try to deescalate the situation.”
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18 Oct 2023
So many university academics who insist upon doing performative, virtue signaling “land acknowledgements” at every public event are eerily silent as real liberation struggles are happening. Guess decolonization really is a metaphor for some folk…
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5 May 2024
This is some excellent work by @HaagJulius, explaining the police subculture and how concerned we should be about police lying.
When the police lie we all pay the price thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
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3 May 2024
We have criminologist @pgwphd on @thebigstoryfpn tomorrow to explain the concept of “state created danger” in incidents like this. If you have an emotional response either way to this incredibly politicized tweet, I hope you listen.
2 May 2024
Two wonderful grandparents and a beautiful baby were killed after a criminal - out because of Justin Trudeau's catch-and-release laws - slammed his car into the innocent family while fleeing a robbery.
Common sense Conservatives will stop the crime by bringing jail, not bail, for repeat violent offenders.
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3 May 2024
A recent high-profile trial and a deadly Highway 401 crash underscore “a very scary moment" for policing. @pgwphd, assistant prof @uoft, explains the tragedies and how they might incite change: link.chtbl.com/UYIyzPYC
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2 May 2024
The customer is always right, Galen...
Galen Weston pushes back on 'misguided criticism' of Loblaw as boycott begins ctvnews.ca/business/galen-we…
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