Jeff Shantz

March 15 is the International Day Against Police Brutality. It has been marked with rallies, memorials, and direct actions each...
Jeff Shantz Mar 12
Only a few police agencies in Canada are subject to any oversight or mechanism of accountability. Even those are not independent...
Jeff Shantz Mar 9
At least ten people were killed by police or died through some interaction with police in Canada in February 2021. This follows a...
Jeff Shantz Mar 1
Excited delirium is one of the favored excuses used by police and their statist supporters when officers kill civilians. It is an...
Jeff Shantz Feb 16
The notion of “excited delirium” makes its appearance in medical contexts almost exclusively as justification for police killings...
Jeff Shantz Feb 9
At least 70 people were killed by police or died through some interaction with police (often not fully disclosed publicly), in...
Jeff Shantz Feb 3
Car chases are a staple of action flicks (and the copaganda glorification of cops) over generations of movie making. Some movies...
Jeff Shantz Jan 27
In his famous 1970 play, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Italian playwright Dario Fo examines the farce of a prisoner...
Jeff Shantz Jan 19
This past year has seen a perhaps unprecedented movement focusing attention on police killings in Canada. Much has rightly been...
Jeff Shantz Jan 13

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