By Darryl Greer (CP)-B.C.’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner says it’s planning to release the results of an inquiry into police use of force in the province later this year, but it’s still crunching numbers in the meantime. The inquiry launched last January is probing police departments for use-of-force data to determine if it shows “disproportionate impacts to racialized persons or persons with mental health issues.” The Victoria Police Department on Wednesday released race-based data showing an “overrepresentation” of Indigenous people in cases involving police use of force over a six-year period from 2018 to 2023. But the police department said the overrepresentation is also reflected in the justice system overall and the data doesn’t mean officers are choosing to use force “on one specific ethnicity over another.” The…
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