Solutions for Addressing Systemic Anti-Black Racism

This is Kirk Mark, a resident of Pickering, and a retired senior administrator with the Toronto Catholic District School Board. I have had the pleasure to know Celina and David, and many thanks to all who are participating. My question for the panelists is as follows: What do you recommend as the first steps for cities and towns in Durham to address Systemic Anti-Black Racism?

Find non-lethal and excessive force means to de-escalate situations

There have been psychological studies done that people who are not black can assume that a black person is angry or aggressive or even "bad" simply by the way they look and the way we perceive them. This test can be done with the police force and other authority figures to help them figure out if they are inherently racist. Without judgment, what are the police force and other authority figures doing to learn how not to react to black people and people of color in an instantly suspicious or negative manner? For example, a police officer might pull over…

Institution change

How are you going to change the institutional of every sector in Durham Region including the mentality of the police force to reduce Black racism?