The National Council of Canadian Muslims said a man who was restrained on the ground with a knee to his neck by an Edmonton Police Service officer following a traffic stop is filing a formal complaint.
CBC News sent freedom of information requests to all 10 municipal police forces across Nova Scotia last spring to obtain copies of decisions on complaints from the public over the previous 11 years. Nine departments complied with the requests but the Halifax Regional Police refused.
Nova Scotians filed hundreds of complaints alleging police misconduct over the last decade. The public never knew what happened to most of them, but a CBC investigation found out following calls from experts for a rethink of the entire complaint system.