High-ranking Toronto police officer helped officers cheat on exam due to isolation and mistreatment, lawyer says
by CP24
CP24— The first female Black superintendent in Toronto Police Service history was in despair over what she believed was systemic mistreatment of Black officers and was attempting to diversify the ranks on her own when she helped six constables cheat in a promotions exam, her lawyer told a police tribunal Monday. Supt. Stacy Clarke was “frustrated and desperate” at the slow pace of change in the service and believed her efforts to promote qualified Black candidates were falling on deaf ears, lawyer...
CP24—Punishment for high-ranking Toronto police officer involved in exam cheating to be decided by summer. An adjudicator will decide the punishment for a high-ranking Toronto Police officer who admitted to helping Black constables cheat a promotions system in what she called a desperate attempt to level the playing field. Lawyers at a Toronto Police Service (TPS) discipline tribunal made their final arguments to Robin McElary-Downer over the case of Supt. Stacy Clarke, who admitted to texting pictures of exam questions before the constables were to take part in a panel. Question-sharing was an...
CP24—Systemic failure to promote Black officers under microscope as superintendent apologizes for helping racialized police cheat. In emotional and raw testimony at a disciplinary tribunal, the first Black female superintendent in the Toronto Police Service apologized for helping racialized constables cheat a promotional exam. But the hearing also delved into how unfair the hiring process was to Black candidates to begin with and how a plan to fix it that was approved by a civilian oversight board was cancelled without warning months before her actions. “It was tremendously important for me to take responsibility for...
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