Public Safety committee  Less training needs to focus on the officers' ability to swim, use a firearm or engage in high-speed pursuits, and more needs to focus on de-escalation and how to interact with members of the public.

Public Safety committee  This is a very good question. I think that what we would term our representative bureaucracy may be good to help improve perceptions of the police and also perhaps to facilitate good community relations, provided that those racialized officers are policing communities that they

Public Safety committee  It's important to examine the culture of policing and the way that informal social networks within policing continue to privilege white officers at the expense of non-white officers. Hockey and golf and who you drink beer with make a huge difference as to your experiences as a po

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. On the whole, I see the benefits of race-based data collection in allowing us, first and foremost, to develop a more comprehensive picture of how members of different racial groups experience policing. The data could be useful for identifying racial d

Public Safety committee  That is an excellent question, and I would like to hear from some of the other speakers on this. My sense is that we wouldn't necessarily be able to take a model that's been developed in any one nation. We would have to pick pieces of practice from specific policing agencies, fo

Public Safety committee  Yes, this should most definitely be standardized using standardized racial descriptors. The Province of Ontario recently, as part of the Anti-Racism Act, put forth data [Technical difficulty—Editor] standards, which I think provide a good model. What would need to happen is simpl

Public Safety committee  It can be done nationally in the uniform crime reporting system. It's a system of reporting information on criminal incidents to Statistics Canada that 99% of police agencies currently use. The whole purpose of that is that all police agencies across the country are sending this

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. You know, I'm a relatively light-skinned African Canadian with a high level of education and a fairly high income. That would make my experience different from my father's in terms of experiences with the police. Although I would tick the box “black”, my father was mu

Public Safety committee  On the race data specifically, yes, I do. It has been collecting some from police agencies that provide that data to them. Others have a policy not to provide the data. Again, going to your intersectionality point, the more data we can collect, the better. I understand that's n

Public Safety committee  Just to clarify, my name is Owusu-Bempah.

Public Safety committee  If we're going to address issues around diversity and inequity, I think I should make that clear. Don't apologize; there are a lot of syllables there. Your point is very, very well taken. We saw this in the United Kingdom, when Macpherson released his report noting that the Lond

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. I will need to wait for the translation.

Public Safety committee  I just need a translation on that, sorry.

Public Safety committee  I don't have it coming through for me.

Public Safety committee  Yes, sorry, I didn't have that. You're correct.