The OPP Is Overhauling Its Sexual Assault Investigation Process: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. After Globe and Mail reports, OPP overhauls sexual assault investigation process
“Ontario Provincial Police officers who investigate sexual assault will soon receive new training, more supervision, additional resources and external scrutiny from local victim-support groups.
“The OPP, one of the country’s largest police services, with more than 6,200 officers, will roll out the changes in the coming months, beginning with the creation of a specialized group of high-ranking officers who will personally monitor every unresolved sex assault case.”
2. London Underground struck by crude bomb
“Britain was hit by a terrorist attack on Friday morning, when a crude bomb exploded on a crowded London Underground train, injuring commuters, sowing panic, disrupting service and drawing a heavy response from armed police officers and emergency workers.”
+1: U.K. raises threat level to ‘critical’, another attack could be imminent – CBC News
3. Provinces are starting to figure out how they’ll legislate recreational weed
“With less than a year left until the government’s self-imposed deadline to legalize marijuana, efforts to figure out how legal weed will be sold in Canada are in full swing. But hearings at a Parliamentary committee in Ottawa have shown there’s still some big differences in opinion about how that should look.
“Premiers want more money, cops want more time. So here is this week’s news on pot endeavours across the country.”
4. How Shoegaze took over Asia
“The genre is often taken to mean English gloom – but a robust hybrid version, taking in everything from local folklore to classic cinema, is flourishing among the art-school introverts of Shanghai, Tokyo and Taiwan”
5. Is Facebook even capable of stopping an influence campaign on its platform?
“A less obvious concern, but perhaps a more serious one, is whether or not the company is even capable of monitoring its 1.3 billion daily active users well enough to stop such sophisticated, clandestine political influence campaigns. Until its disclosure last week about the $100,000 in political ads bought by Russians, Facebook had publicly maintained it had ‘no evidence’ of such buys.”
