CBC looked at data from Quebec's police watchdog, which starts from 2017. Six people were fatally shot by police officers in Nunavik, which
The rate of fatal shootings by police officers in Nunavik is roughly 73 times higher than the Quebec average, according to numbers from the provincial police watchdog. CBC looked at data from the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), which starts from 2017. The BEI investigates any injuries or deaths of a person other than a police officer during a police intervention. The organization has recorded six fatal police shootings in Nunavik, which has a population of under 15,000, compared to 51 across the province of roughly nine million. The most recent shooting by police in the province was in Inukjuak earlier this month. It prompted calls for reform across the region including from the families of two other men who were fatally shot by police.
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