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AFTER CHARGES

Police hold back —

Metropolitan Toronto
Polica — shaken by charges
of racism against them --
are backing away from
confrontations with black
tawbreakers, senior police
officials Bay.

Pollce are ignoring such
things as minor traific viola.
tions and some officers are
talking about refusing to an-
awer gun calls or are
walking away from violent
situations, the offictals

added.

The uneasiness stems
from the seed of doubt that
was planted in the minds of
Toronto residents. by the
recent death of a Jamaican
immigrant who waa shot by
police in his home,

Albert Johnaon had a long
history of involvement with
police that ended Aug. 26

- when an officer ahot him as

he came downstairs at his
home swinglng what
appeared to be an axe.

it turned out to be a lawn
edger with a curved 15-cantl-
metre blade but th yictim of
the third police a ting in
Toronto year and the
jithin the last 12 months has
been turned into a martyr
among minorities in the city.

Protest groups, Including
about 1,600 who
demonstrated in front of the
division police station near.
Johnson's home, have been
outepoken in thelr
complaints against police.

ACross-Canada Survey by
The Canadian Press shows
that shootings by police are
meré common in Toronto —
the country’s largest city —
than in other cities that keep
track.

A spokesman for Montreal
police aald no record is kept
of the number of shootings
by pollce but a veteran police
reporter sald he couldn't
recall any in the last 12
months in the county's
second largest metropolitan
centre,

Vancouver police sald one
en shot by

The last reported police
fatality was recorded In 1062.
Last ‘winter in Edmonton,
police killed a man who was
aking into a gtin store,
Calgary
incldenta of that nature nor
did the province of
Saskatchewan of all the At-
lantic provinces,

Winnipeg police report
shooting a man to death last
December but that force aleo
does not keep a file on police
shootings, A police
spokesman sald he could
recall no woundings by
police,

__ An Ottawa policeman last.
year killed a burglary
suspect who came at him
with an iron bar.

MORALE LOW .

Quebec City police sald a
person caught‘ committing
an armed holdup was killed
by police during a chase in
the last 12 months.

Mal Connolly, president of
the Metro Toronto Police
association, and Supt. Ken
Schultz, whoheads the police
division that patrols the area:
where Johnson was killed,
aaid morale among the
Toronto force's 6,000 oificers
is at ita lowest ebb in 25

years.
” Of the” 11 shootings
volving police in the last 12
months, eight men were
killed and a Toronto police
constable died in the line of
duty. One man and a pollce
constable were wounded,
These numbers are small
compared with major cities
in the United States but it
must be remembered that
the three U.S. cltlea listed
below are larger than
Toronto, just as Toronto {s
larger than the Canadian

“dities listed In the survey.

New York City police said

reported © no

ee m

- 40 persons were Killed and BO
were wounded by police in

1978.

And a stu
New York policeman shows
that 401 officers were
involved last year in 972
ehootings, Half .of these,
however, Involved shots

fired accidentally and to kilt

stray animals,

New York police shootings
have declined since a 1972
policy imposed by: then-
police commissioner Patrick.
Murphy that included a
provision “to preserve and
protect life wherever
possible,”'..

New York police were also
Instructed to use minimum
force to accomplish a
mission, and prohibited
officera from f & gun
“where lives of ocent
persons may be
endangered.”

The study by Jim Fyfe, the
former policeman, showed
that in the 12 months before
the new polley 1,051 New
York officers were involved
in 603 shooting Incidents,

In Philadelphia, the first

U.S. clty to be taken to court
by the federal government
over allegations of polica
brutality, pollee shoot about
75 clvillans every year.

The Chicago police depart:
ment reports that 12
justifiable homicides were
committed Ky on-duty
policemen during the last 12
months,

The U.S. untice
department is conducting’
investigations of police

brutality in Houston, Tex,

Memphis, Tenn., and Mo
bile, Ala.
Despite the Toronto

thootings, Ontario Attorney-
Genera] Roy McMurtry has
rejected a call by Toronto
aldermen for an independent
civillan review to investigate
complaints against police.

Natives said ignored

WINNIPEG (CP) — A
university professor says
funding for alcoholic
treatment programs in
Canada may discriminate
against natlve people.

“We seem to hava some...

kind of a two-class system
operating on some sort of
racial grounds and it’s just
not t,”? said Dr. Angus
Reid, a professor of social
and preventive medicine at
Universlty of Manitoba.

Reld sald he bases his re-
marks.on @ Canada-wide
gbady he made of alcoholism
and drug treatment facilities
in the varlous provinces.

“With respect to nailves,
the key fin is that the
level of funding is

capita, per client basis than
it is for whites, by a factor of
about one-half, That's the
on finding T'm going to be

‘Reld sald that the average
level of funding {n 1976 for

367 drug and alcoholism
agencles with programs
catering primarily to whites
was about §155,000.
Programs catering to
natives had an average
annual budget of $77,000; .---
He said the comparison ‘is
an Indictment of the attitude
of provincial governments
toward native people,
especially in the Weat.
. Held said he found that
most of the treatment
ograma for alcoholics are
ocated in the Prairle
provinces and more than
one-third of the people using
them are natives,

«He sald the findings fly in

the face of the principle of

equal access to health care

for all Canadians.

_. eld ald research han.
shown that one-third of all

deaths among native people

_ that Canada is deal!

among natives are due to |

alcohol-related problems.”
He said it doesn't take "a
great leap of faith" to realize
witha
jor social problem in
native alcohollam,.
“All one has to do ls walk
around the centre of mist
Canadian citles and you

realize [t. And then we find .

levels of funding for services
for these people which are
not by far what they should

But Reid sald native
organizations are at least
partly blame for the
situation. Those that atarted
fo. push for. treatment
programs were bought off by
governments which prom-
ised a treatment program
“and then come across with
say, $50,-000, thinking this
would solve the whole

ate due to accidents and thing

violence, a far higher
percentage than for whites.

"Tt is eatimated that about
78 per centofall those deaths

- Others asked for

ora BINKLEY

‘AWA (CP) — The Eu
ropean Economic
Community and Australla
were asked Thursday to
follow the lead of Canada
and the United States in
agreeing to negotiate a new
international food-ald

. convention with developing

countries,

The request came from
Arturo Tanco, Philippines
agriculture minister and
president of the World Food
Council which is meeting
here this week,

Agriculture Minister John
Wise announced earlier in
the week that Canada is
prepared to negotiate a new
food-ald convention.
Previously the Canadiar.
lovernment insisted that a
load convention be worked
outin conjunction with a new
international wheat

agreement,
Talke for a new wheat
agreement ended in

stalemate last February and
thera Ia little prospect of a
resumption of those
negotiations. That agree:
ment ia to expire in 1981 and
with it a food-aild accord that:
ensures grain supplies
during worldwide shortages.

Developing countries have
asked for a separate food-ald
aecord but grain exporting
countries had opposed such a
move,

But the U.S, egreed earller
toa separul2 food-aid accard
and, ‘74h, Canuca's change,
vewo gal he hopes tha

Buropenns and Australians _

alan will agree.

buring the morning.
seaalons of the council's
Annual meeting, Tanco

,{ Bralsed Wise for Canada’s

change of heart and sald be
oper it is anexample for the
reat of the world,

There = is general
agreement among the 38
members of the United
Nation's agency that food
production has to be in-
creased in developing
countries so there is less
reliance on food from
developed countries. ,

But there is a wide diver-
gence of opinions on how that
should be accompllahed,

Many developing countries
want assistance plans
worked out between
governments or in-
terna tlonal agencies to keep
ou

multinational
_ companies, .

He said development of the
programs didn't have a

of keeping pace with white
programa.

food too

But the developed
countries wanta greater role
for private companies.

They also my their
crippled economies cannot
afford a much greater
amount of assistance and
that the wealthy members of
the Organizatlon of the
Petroleum Exporting Coun-
tries (OPEC) should play a
larger role. -

The disagreements will
likely surface again today
when the delegates meet for
the final session.

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spent $16.5 billion on tobacco
products.

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