In June, Crombie asked for the review of Peel police’s street-check policy as Evans defended the practice as an important tool to help solve crimes.
Evans was asked Wednesday how many crimes her force has solved with the help of street-check data, but no information was provided to the Star.
Data obtained in August after the Star filed a freedom of information request in June showed that Peel police conducted 159,303 street checks over six years, from 2009 to 2014.
The race-based data obtained Tuesday shows that in 2011, blacks were stopped in 5,830 street checks by Peel police out of 26,113 total checks, or 22 per cent of the time.
That year, blacks had three times the chance of being stopped, compared to whites, a number that remains consistent when using the street-check data from 2009 to 2014.
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