Host: Ivan Angelovski

As the Waterloo region’s police board is discussing the next police budget, Radio Waterloo sat with Dr. Kathy Hoghart, an associate professor in the School of Social Work in University of Waterloo, and former advisor to Waterloo regional police chief Brian Larkin, on issues of race.

The discussion covers the widespread calls to reallocate police budget money into other services that can more competently do the work the police have been tasked with, and issues of systemic racism within the WRPS and policing generally.  

In the last few months the police board received several reports that clearly show the police bias against Black and Indigenous people. While board members were surprised by those reports, Dr. Hoghart wasn’t surprised at all.

Dr. Kathy Hoghart's UW bio-page:
https://uwaterloo.ca/school-of-social-work/people-profiles/kathy-hogarth

Dr. Kathy Hoghart's twitter:
https://twitter.com/radicalprodigal

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