Carding ineffective and harmful, study shows
An extensive report by highly respected Ontario criminologists argues that carding in North America does much more harm than good. One more reason why carding should stop in Halifax.
Privacy
News brief: How secure is carding database? Halifax police isn’t saying
Any time police conduct a street check that information ends up in a database. We wondered how secure that data is, and discovered that Halifax Regional Police (HRP) is not very helpful.
That’s stopping people at random. Former Halifax City police officer Calvin Lawrence on carding
Calvin Lawrence, a former Black police officer who served with Halifax City Police in the sixties and seventies, has been following the discussion about carding from his current residence in Ottawa. He’s not happy with the Chief’s stance, and draws on his own experiences as a cop on the Gottingen and Gerrish beat to explain why.
Halifax police chief J.M Blais at carding community meeting: what is the problem we are trying to solve?
We went to last night’s panel on carding at the North End Library. We planned to write about the entire evening, but we ended up with a story focused entirely on the remarkable responses by Halifax Regional Police chief J.M. Blais.
Op-ed: It’s called carding, and it should stop entirely
Why it’s called carding, not street checks, and why it should stop.