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Chrismas, Robert. (2013). Canadian Policing in the 21st Century: A Frontline Officer on Challenges and Changes. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
This book offers a rare look at street-level police work and the hidden culture behind the badge.
Comack, Elizabeth (2012) Racialized Policing: Aboriginal Peoples Encounters with the Police. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing
The author utilizes historical records and contemporary cases of Aboriginal-police relations as well as interviews with Aboriginal people in Winnipeg’s inner-city communities to explore the issue of racism in policing.
Huey, L., Blaskovits, B., Bennell, C., Kalyal, H. J., & Walker, T. (2017). To what extent do Canadian police professionals believe that their agencies are ‘Targeting, Testing, and Tracking’ new policing strategies and programs? Police Practice & Research, 18(6), 544–555
The authors asked Canadian police professionals to reflect on whether they think their agencies enact evidence based policing principles in daily operations; specifically, the principles of targeting, testing, and tracking the implementation of new policing strategies.
Kiedrowski, J., Jones, N. A., & Ruddell, R. (2017). ‘Set up to fail?’ An analysis of self-administered indigenous police services in Canada. Police Practice & Research, 18(6), 584–598.
The authors evaluate the First Nations Policing Program (FNPP) that assists Indigenous communities in establishing their own autonomous police services funded by provincial and federal governments.
Marquis, Greg. (2016) The Vigilant Eye: Policing Canada from 1867 to 9/11. Halifax: Fernwood
The author describes the historical roots of nineteenth-century British North American policing and traces the development of the three models of law enforcement: the local rural constable, the municipal police department and the paramilitary territorial constabulary.
Maynard, Robyn. (2017) Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Halifax: Fernwood
The author draws parallels between state violence in Canada and the United States, and explores the legal, social and historical forces that contribute to the criminalization of marginalized and racialized groups in Canada.
Monaghan, Jeffrey. (Winter 2013). “Mounties in the Frontier: Circulations, Anxieties, and Myths of Settler Colonial Policing in Canada” in Journal of Canadian Studies, 41(1): pp.122–148.
Examining correspondence records from 1886 onward, this essay details how the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) established patrol routes in the year following the North-West Rebellion.
Owusu-Bempah, Akwasi and Anthony Morgan. (July 18, 2016). “A Hard Truth About Canada’s Policing Style: It’s Tempting to Believe We’re Morally Superior to the US, But in Terms of Policing and Racial Profiling, We’re Not So Dissimilar” in The Globe and Mail. A9. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/a-hard-truth-canadas-policing-style-is-very-similar-to-the-us/article30942053/
This news article details how policing styles in Canada and the US are not much different in terms of policing and racial profiling.
Peters, A. M. F., & Cohen, I. M. (2017). The mandate and activities of a specialized crime reduction policing unit in Canada. Police Practice & Research, 18(6), 570–583.
Sytsma, V. A., & Laming, E. (2019). Exploring Barriers to Researching the Economics of Municipal Policing. Canadian Journal of Criminology & Criminal Justice, 61(1): pp.15-40
This article identifies several barriers to and limitations of studying the economics of policing in Canada. The authors conclude that in an era of evidence-based policing, Canadian researchers and practitioners are extremely limited in accessing data on capital expenditures in police agencies.
CASE CITED
Mounted Police Association of Ontario v Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 1