Unfortunately, with regard to an increase in reporting without really a proper solution offered, we don't have the mechanisms, such as restorative justice and the transformative justice system. I also want to highlight that if we come to those solutions, there will be further discussions and further advisories and further conversations needed. We don't have that in existence in the system right now, hence our reservation.
I work with an organization that serves 14,000 people who survive violence every year. I should be the first to say, “Yes, please bring in another tool.” My challenge is that I provide those services in an environment that is really broken for the most marginalized. People from immigrant communities and non-status communities don't even want to come forward and report crimes for fear of deportation or further repercussions.
In that environment, I find it really difficult to support the idea of creating another law without those supports.