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Alok Mukherjee and Tim Harper

Tim Harper and Alok Mukherjee are the authors of Excessive Force: Toronto's Fight to Reform City Policing, published by Douglas & McIntyre and shortlisted for the 2018/19 Donner Prize, the best public policy of the year written by a Canadian. 

Force is not just what comes out of the barrel of a police officer’s gun

Police, pictured on June 26, 2010, at the G20 in Toronto when riots broke out after some protesters vandalized several downtown businesses. Some 1,000 arrests were made over the course of the two-day summit. The Toronto Police Service and the Integrated Security Unit of the G20 summit were later criticized for brutality. At its peak, there were 10,000 protesters and more than 20,000 police, military and security policed the protests. The Hill Times file photograph
Police, pictured on June 26, 2010, at the G20 in Toronto when riots broke out after some protesters vandalized several downtown businesses. Some 1,000 arrests were made over the course of the two-day summit. The Toronto Police Service and the Integrated Security Unit of the G20 summit were later criticized for brutality. At its peak, there were 10,000 protesters and more than 20,000 police, military and security policed the protests. The Hill Times file photograph
Police, pictured on June 26, 2010, at the G20 in Toronto when riots broke out after some protesters vandalized several downtown businesses. Some 1,000 arrests were made over the course of the two-day summit. The Toronto Police Service and the Integrated Security Unit of the G20 summit were later criticized for brutality. At its peak, there were 10,000 protesters and more than 20,000 police, military and security policed the protests. The Hill Times file photograph
Police, pictured on June 26, 2010, at the G20 in Toronto when riots broke out after some protesters vandalized several downtown businesses. Some 1,000 arrests were made over the course of the two-day summit. The Toronto Police Service and the Integrated Security Unit of the G20 summit were later criticized for brutality. At its peak, there were 10,000 protesters and more than 20,000 police, military and security policed the protests. The Hill Times file photograph