I hear a lot about training. I think that we have to start training at an early level, even before they get to the police department, and let us not forget that we need to train the trainers, because often trainers are behind the times in terms of concepts such as intersectionality, systemic discrimination, and merging the notion of human rights and policing.
The other thing that we have to focus on is this: Training people is one thing, but you have to make sure that the police departments reflect the people in the communities they serve. Employment equity and equitable representation must be the guiding principles for any police organization, especially if it wants to go for a cultural shift in its ways of doing things.
We have moved away from employment equity in the police departments for so long. Now we need to produce the numbers at every level so that men, women, and people of different genders or different backgrounds are reflected. When there are more people of diverse backgrounds, we believe that the organization and the culture will shift, and shift in the right direction—