In my initial remarks, I used the example of mandatory charging as an unintended legislative reform that has ended up harming the people we work with. I'm sure you've heard multiple stories.
I used to be a defence counsel. I represented someone who used a toy that was characterized as a weapon. She was charged with assault with a weapon. She was defending herself when she was running away, and she threw the toy. When the police arrived at the home, they had to charge someone and they didn't know who the aggressor was.
Often in cases of intimate partner violence, the person who is harming the other person knows very well how to use the law against the person they are already harming. We have to be really careful when we look at utilizing the new tools in our tool box not to continue to harm people through a system that already has bias at its core.