Police Use of Force Race-Based Data

Police Use of Force Race-Based Data is an open dataset from Government of Ontario with 33 files (CSV, DOCX, XLSX, HTML, PDF); catalogue record updated 2026-10-28. On CanQuery you can open 18 CSV or Excel files as tables, filter, chart and export up to 10,000 rows as CSV and follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

The Anti-Racism Act, 2017 and its associated regulation and guidance require the Ministry of the Solicitor General to collect and analyze race-based data in police use of force. These datasets include information extracted from provincially mandated police Use of Force Reports. The technical reports that accompany the datasets provide a detailed description of how the data were collected; data quality concerns; data cleaning and validation; and data limitations. This information is essential for understanding how to analyze the data appropriately and interpret any results from analysis. Note: Datasets on this page may be updated periodically. For information on data updates, please consult the available metadata such as data dictionary and supporting documentation.

Publisher

Government of Ontario

Resources

33

Catalogue metadata updated

2026-10-28