Tracking (In)Justice Project Publishes Article, “Documenting Fatal Encounters with Police in Canada”

Earlier this year the Tracking (In)Justice project published an article in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, on the team’s SSHRC funded research tracking police-involved deaths across Canada. With a collaborative data governance approach, which includes communities most impacted and families of those killed by police, the team documents and analyze 745 cases of police-involved deaths when intentional force is used across Canada from 2000 to 2023. The data indicate a steady rise in deaths, in particular shooting deaths, as well as that Black and Indigenous people are over-represented. The  article concludes with reflections on the ethical complexities of datafication, knowledge development of what they call death data and the challenges of enumerating deaths, pitfalls of official sources, the data needs of communities, and the living nature of the Tracking (In)Justice project. 

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