Weeks after she was stripped of her history-making rank for helping a number of racialized cops cheat to get promoted, Supt. Stacy Clarke is seeking to appeal her demotion, arguing she was villainized for conduct that is “rampant” within Canada’s largest municipal police force.
Calling the recent penalty decision in her high-profile misconduct hearing “excessive, harsh, unwarranted and disproportionate,” Clarke — the first Black female superintendent in Toronto police history — filed a notice of appeal late last month to the province’s police adjudicative body.