Legal Rights and Public Policy

• Know Your Rights: What Can (and Can’t) Police Do?
• Legal Aid and Access to Representation
• Language, Literacy, and Legal Understanding in Marginalized Communities
• Laws That Criminalize Poverty
• Overpolicing and Underprotection
• The Role of Municipal vs. Federal Policy in Policing Standards
• The Public Policy Loop: How Do Laws Get Changed?
• Police Unions, Lobbying, and Political Influence
• Public Consultation vs. Policy Theatre
• The Canadian Charter and Community Safety
• Search, Seizure, and Surveillance
• Curfews, Protest Restrictions, and the Right to Assemble