Methodology and limitations

Inclusion rule

A public record must have a complete decision date, a concluded outcome, and a link to an official decision publisher or CanLII. It must be marked both verified and published by an administrator.

What is excluded

Active allegations, unresolved proceedings, news-only accounts, records without a reliable date, duplicates, and unverified source links remain outside public totals. Withdrawn and stayed records may be shown as concluded records but are not guilty findings.

Official source registry

• Law Enforcement Complaints Agency
• Ontario Police Arbitration and Adjudication Commission
• CanLII — Ontario decisions

Field definitions

Finding

The outcome recorded in the source, normalized for filtering.

Misconduct category

A concise category derived from the decision wording; it is not a new legal finding.

Penalty

The disposition reported in the source. “Unknown” means the reviewed source did not establish it.

Decision year

The calendar year of the dated decision, not necessarily the incident year.

Interpretation limits

Counts describe the available verified dataset. They are not misconduct rates. Police services differ in size, publication practices, time coverage, appeals, and case handling. Without complete workforce or complaint denominators, service comparisons must not be treated as performance rankings.

Update and correction workflow

1. Official indexes are checked for new or changed links.
2. New candidates enter a private review queue.
3. An administrator verifies finality, date, fields, and source.
4. Only then is a record published or corrected.
5. The public change log records material dataset changes.

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