Police reboot: there’s an urgent need to listen and focus on community needs, not police needs

To those who are tasked with the responsibility of examining police operations and budgets, be brave and be innovative; your work is important. It is in the public’s best interest.

One man, pictured on June 5, 2020, of an estimated 8,000 people who demonstrated on the Hill to call attention to racism, and specifically anti-Black racism and police violence against Black people across Canada and the United States after a Black man, George Floyd, was killed by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CASSELS

July 20, 2020

EDMONTON—Policing is first and foremost a service to the community; the more it is at odds with the needs and values of the community, the less it works. While these words may be good common sense to most people, the reality is that the police are most often at odds with the needs of the communit...

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