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Police culture is a major obstacle to systemic reform in the profession of policing itself. It is this culture that is notorious for fostering hostile attitudes toward the public. If the TPS is successful in casting Forcillo as a deviation from the norm, and not a product of its internal training, culture, and formal value structure, these attitudes are unlikely to change.
Sammy Yatim's mother says she welcomes recommendations from a coroner's inquest into his shooting death by a former Toronto police officer, but she will only have closure if the proposals result in action.
Recommendations touch on officer training, monitoring, peer intervention and mental health supports for officers and family members of those killed or seriously injured by police
Jurors in the Sammy Yatim inquest call for mandatory peer intervention, a better flagging system and support for families of victims
Jurors at an inquest into the death of a teen shot by a Toronto police officer more than a decade ago have issued 63 recommendations in an effort to prevent similar deaths in the future.