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Podcast: This Matters
Episode: Rights wronged: How police are violating people’s Charter rights
Description: Guests: Rachel Mendleson, investigative reporter at The Star and Steve Buist, investigative reporter at The Spec A recent Torstar investigation found over 600 cases where a judge found police forces committed serious breaches and violations of people’s Charter rights. As well, nine forces were found to have systemic breaches of not respecting these rights. It is a national problem. The consequences of this are criminal cases being thrown out with alleged suspects walking free as some innocent people have their rights trampled on.