“…Community mapping sessions and walking tours provided the researchers and staff a journey into the lived experiences and observations of ACB youth in Windsor, Ontario. The common thread in these accounts and activities was the social inequality, which was more along racial lines that tended to create social exclusion, perpetuating feelings of discrimination and overt racism, which have been reported to have serious impact on ACB communities particularly youth [18,19,29,30] and their attitude to the police [31]. Although these experiences results in lack of entitlement and privilege, thus threatening the social existential survival of ACB population, particularly youth, the community mapping strategies, gave back to these youth some elements of power not just as research participants but also as researchers in the front drive of data collection, informing and making contributions to all stages in the project.…”