April 27, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
t’s tough to tackle systemic racism when the people you’re talking to are outraged when you suggest it’s an issue.
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‘Psychiatrists in blue’: How do you train cops to be better social workers?
July 7, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
It was just another 911 call to an apartment building where a tenant was causing a ruckus.
Taser Files: What we found in 594 pages of police incident reports
July 7, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The call came in just before 8 p.m. – a woman was threatening to kill herself. Police found her with a butcher knife pressed up against her neck.
Why don’t women report rape? Because most get no justice when they do
February 23, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Chances are a woman in Canada will be sexually assaulted while you’re reading this and never tell police.
Anatomy of a hit and run
January 19, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
I heard the crunch as much as felt it – the weight of a thousand kilograms of car ramming into me from behind.
Anti-revenge porn pioneer finds Canada’s cyberbullying law ‘disturbing’
September 22, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Mary Anne Franks has made a name for herself fighting “revenge porn” – the dissemination of intimate photos of a woman (it’s almost always a woman) without her permission or knowledge – often by an estranged partner.
But she’d really rather you didn’t call it that.
Should we be hiring more compassionate cops?
July 29, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny and James Armstrong, Global News
The head of Toronto’s civilian police watchdog thinks aspiring officers should have to volunteer with people who have mental illness.
Police and cities face off over pay
Friday, July 6, 2012 – Globe and Mail
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
Financial showdowns between police and the cities paying them can be nasty. And they’re getting nastier: Across Canada, budgetary games of chicken are playing out between cash-strapped cities and police forces that argue they’re taking on more than they ever have – and need the cash to back it.
The mayor of Peterborough, Ont., has been locked out of two meetings of the police board, on which he sits, after a rare move by council to reject a funding request and slice the force’s budget on its own. Reports this week suggested the board may have asked Ontario’s Civilian Police Commission to remove the mayor entirely.
