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CTV News
9 hours ago
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Winnipeg police use of force reports, calls for service rose in 2024
A Winnipeg Police Service shoulder patch is seen at the Public Information Office in Winnipeg, Sept. 2, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Lipnowski Winnipeg police officers reported more incidents involving use of force last year, along with an increase in calls for service compared to the five-year average. The new data is outlined in a report by Winnipeg Police Chief Gene Bowers to the city's police board. According to the service, there were 968 use of force reports in 2024, which is up about 12 per cent from 2023. It is also a 22 per cent jump from the five-year average. 'The number of use of force reports is dictated by interactions in the field. As such, these numbers are determined by the behaviour of subjects and their willingness to comply with members,' the report said. All cases involving use of force, except in training, require a report, which is then independently reviewed and assessed. The rise came amid a similar increase in calls for service. There were 239,903 in 2024 – about 2,000 more than the five-year average, but over 7,000 fewer than 2023. Meanwhile, incidents involving defensive resistance, active aggression, and aggravated active aggression were all up over last year's data, while defensive resistance was down. This data comes after a WPS statistical report released last month showed assaults against police officers were up from 388 in 2023 to 421 in 2024 – an 8.5 per cent increase from 2023 and a 20 per cent leap over the five-year average. WPS expects to be $4 million over budget Meanwhile, the Winnipeg Police Service is forecast to end the year over $4 million in the red. According to the service's year-end forecast, the overexpenditure is driven in part by overtime from the Winnipeg Jets Whiteout Street Parties. The report also said inflation is pressuring operating expenses, impacting the service's ability to meet its target. The full report can be read on the city's website.
BBC News
23-05-2025
- Politics
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Senzo Mchunu: South Africa crime statistics debunk 'white genocide' claims
South Africa's latest crime statistics debunk claims that a genocide is being committed against white people, the country's police minister has widely discredited allegation was amplified by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, in an extraordinary meeting with his South African counterpart Cyril told Ramaphosa that white farmers in South Africa were being killed and "persecuted".On Friday, South African Police Minister Senzo Mchunu said that between January and March, five out of the six people killed on farms were black and one was white. The white victim lived on a farm, while the black people who were killed comprised two farm owners, two employees and one moment Trump ambushes Ramaphosa with videoFact-checking Trump's Oval Office confrontation with RamaphosaMchunu said that in the previous quarter, from October to December 2024, 12 murders on farms were recorded. One of the 12 - a farm owner - was is the first time that South Africa's crime statistics have been broken down by race, but Mchunu said he had done so as a result of the recent genocide claims."The history of farm murders in the country has always been distorted and reported in an unbalanced way," he said. In February, a South African judge dismissed the idea of a genocide as "clearly imagined" and "not real", when ruling in an inheritance case involving a wealthy benefactor's donation to a white supremacist of genocide in South Africa have been circulating for years, catching the attention of right-wing groups in the visited the White House on Wednesday in an attempt to reset the countries' relations after Trump granted asylum to nearly 60 Afrikaners - descendants of mainly Dutch settlers who arrived in the 17th Century - saying they were "victims of unjust racial discrimination".During the meeting, which was broadcast live, Trump ambushed Ramaphosa with videos and images intended to support his claim of a white BBC found that this "evidence" contained numerous falsehoods. "We have respect for the US as a country, we have respect for the people in that country and for President Trump, but we have no respect for the genocide story. It is totally unfounded and unsubstantiated," Mchunu said on remains a huge problem in South Africa, the minister acknowledged, but added that all sections of society are also rejected allegations, repeated by Trump, that government was expropriating land held by white this year, Ramaphosa signed a controversial law which allowed the government to seize privately-owned land without compensation in some circumstances. The South African government says no land has been seized yet under the law follows years of calls for land reform in South Africa, where the white minority possess the vast majority of privately held land and wealth in the country, more than 30 years since the racist system of apartheid between South Africa and the US have slumped since Trump took office in January. As well as offering asylum to Afrikaners, the US leader has cut aid to South Africa and expelled its ambassador. You may also be interested in: Is there a genocide of white South Africans as Trump claims?On the South African road incorrectly identified as a 'burial site' by TrumpHow Trump-Ramaphosa confrontation went down in South Africa Go to for more news from the African us on Twitter @BBCAfrica, on Facebook at BBC Africa or on Instagram at bbcafrica
