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Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. Could you repeat the question? I'm sorry about that.

July 23rd, 2020Committee meeting

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

Public Safety committee  I think there's an important distinction between perhaps institutional racism and then definitely structural racism. We can put systemic with structural, but there are various forms of inequality present in our society, as I said at the outset, that lead to policing outcomes and

July 23rd, 2020Committee meeting

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

Public Safety committee  Table a plan to address excessive use of force. Table a plan to address the release of race-based data, which the RCMP has been reluctant to release. Address the community relations strategy, and recognize, again, that one high-profile case of police abuse is going to undo good w

July 23rd, 2020Committee meeting

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

Public Safety committee  In choosing my words carefully, I would call it almost glacial. There appear to be efforts made towards some progress in some senses, and I'm not seeing that progress made in the actions of the membership at the federal level of policing. While there are numerous initiatives, w

July 23rd, 2020Committee meeting

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

Public Safety committee  I think the most important thing to consider when we think about relationship building between the police and the communities they serve is that you can spend countless hours trying to foster good relations and all it takes is one high-profile case of abuse to undo all of that wo

July 23rd, 2020Committee meeting

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

Public Safety committee  I am Professor Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, with the University of Toronto, as we have established. I'd like to thank the committee, as well, for the opportunity to speak before you today, and Dr. Schiffer for his comments. In addition to my own research on issues of race and policing,

July 23rd, 2020Committee meeting

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

Public Safety committee  It's Mississauga.

July 23rd, 2020Committee meeting

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

Public Safety committee  I'll see myself out then.

July 23rd, 2020Committee meeting

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah