There are a couple of things. By having some of this legislation put in place, I think it allows us as a police service to properly report on what we're seeing and what we're dealing with. I think right now, because it is a bit grey in some of these spaces, we're not seeing charges being laid in spaces that are maybe under “mischief”, for example. It's not accurately capturing what we're dealing with.
Right now we're left to search reports doing keyword strokes to look for language within our reports to identify whether someone has potentially committed a hate incident or a hate crime. Again, the more that we as a police service can support and represent all of our communities to have safe spaces to do what they want to do each and every day, and to have those parameters around that, the more it builds trust with our communities and sets the standards for the expectation around how we interact with each other.