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Toronto police task force report

June 14, 2016

The fol­low­ing is a list of Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to experts who can com­ment on the Toron­to police task force report and TAVIS.

Rinal­do Wal­cott, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Soci­ol­o­gy
Exper­tise: Race, Black pol­i­tics, Com­mu­ni­ty crit­i­cism of TAVIS
Tel: (416) 978‑0400
Email: rinaldo.walcott@utoronto.ca (email is best)

Akwasi Owusu-Bem­pah, Ph.D. Can­di­date in Cen­tre of Crim­i­nol­o­gy
Exper­tise: Polic­ing chal­lenges, Crim­i­nal Jus­tice, TAVIS’ fail­ure
Email: a.o.bempah@mail.utoronto.ca or can mes­sage him through Twit­ter: @AOBempah

Scot Wort­ley, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Crim­i­nol­o­gy
Exper­tise: Rec­om­men­da­tions, Crit­i­cism of com­mu­ni­ty polic­ing strat­e­gy
Email: scot.wortley@utoronto.ca (avail­able after 3 p.m.)

Peter Rosen­thal, Adjunct Pro­fes­sor of Law, Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Math­e­mat­ics
Exper­tise: Polic­ing
Email: rosent@math.utoronto.ca