Thought experiment: is this very different from police targeting high-risk neighbourhoods?<p>Police have been over-policing black and poor neighbourhoods for decades but no one is protesting that. There will certainly be a correlation between &quot;interactions with the authorities&quot; &lt;-&gt; where police spend their time patrolling, skewing the data.<p>The only time I&#x27;ve ever been stopped and interrogated randomly, simply for walking down the sidewalk with a hoodie on (in winter) in a bad neighbourhood, was visiting a friend in a housing project. Asking where I was going and who am I meeting.<p>All of his family and friends get harassed by police living there, despite having zero background of criminality. And in Toronto they record your name&#x2F;location each time you get stopped and carded in an &quot;anti-gang&quot; database.