August Toronto Peter Maloney and […]

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1980-08

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August Toronto Peter Maloney and other representatives of the gay community organized a meeting with minorities liaison officer Eric Wright and 52 Division Superintendent Sproule to discuss a format for handling gay community complaints against the police force. The gays wanted to plan a conference to invite representatives from government, the police, and the community to discuss issues of concern to gay people. The police adamantly opposed the idea of a conference, saying that mechanisms already existed for getting police and community representatives together. A compromise was reached when it was agreed that gay representatives would hold monthly meetings with downtown police divisions to discuss specific problems such as entrapment in parks, or lack of police protection on Yonge Street.

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52 Division police headquarters Toronto

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David Sproule Eric Wright P.M. (Peter Maloney)

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Robert Trow, "Cops to Meet Gays on Hallowe'en Issue," Body Politic, no. 67 (1980), p. 12.

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Eric Wright

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