The 3-hour online course “Uniting Against Racism” was introduced as part of the Vision 150 program brought in by Brenda Lucki when she took over.
The Mounties have acknowledged their ongoing problems with systemic racism and discrimination. They have touted their action plan for dealing with those problems.
Vision 150 was designed, over the course of five to seven years, to reform the RCMP, in part by addressing its systemic problems with racism and discrimination. Those problems, since 2018, have led to the national police force paying out or potentially facing some $2.4 billion worth of damages in multiple class-action lawsuits.
training and we continue to communicate the importance of this learning and monitor uptake to ensure employee completion,” said RCMP spokesperson Camille Boily-Lavoie in an email. “There has been a sense of a racial reckoning and discussions about racial bias in Canadian policing, and the RCMP, as our national police force, has explicitly stated that they care very much about equity and diversity,” said Toronto Metropolitan University criminology professor Kanika Samuels-Wortley, who studies racial bias within policing, including the use of training to address that bias.
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