Editorial: Balanced rules needed for police street checks

If you are a black or aboriginal Edmontonian, there’s a significantly greater chance that police will stop you for no apparent reason as you walk or drive down the street.
Data obtained this week by activist group Black Lives Matter show police “carded” 22,689 people in 22,969 street checks in 2016. The numbers show black people and aboriginal people, especially women, were questioned and documented in street checks at a higher rate than their share of the population warrants.