Carding melodrama goes on as police adopt new rules

The Toronto Police Board has adopted new rules for the practice known widely as carding. That’s the stopping of citizens — usually young men — to ask what they are doing. It can’t be fun for those who are stopped. On the other hand, is it the life-changing trauma so many critics of carding claim. The police have long insisted that carding “follows the crime.”  It goes where there are break-ins and thefts. It is said to be welcomed by many people who live in such areas. But this is an argument that has no traction with those opposed. And so it seems carding will continue to be a battleground with the police insisting that there are real advantages to the practice.