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Strip searches are ineffective, unnecessary and target racialized Canadian

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Despite making up just 10% of Toronto's population, in 2020, one in every three people who were strip-searched are Black. Monika Lemke, PhD candidate in Socio-Legal Studies, explores how strip searching evokes racial and sexual trauma in her latest article for Conversation Canada.