We need to have a serious public debate about policing in this country. The NS shooting has laid bare some very troubling realities: that police aren't very good at stopping someone from committing violence.

Here's what I've been thinking a lot about:

When Bissonnette went on his rampage at the mosque, it wasn't police who stopped him. He fled, panicked and called 9-1-1 himself. An operator kept him on the line for almost an hour while the police caught up to him. They detained a victim (not white) thinking he was the shooter.

Minassian would probably have been hard to stop in the middle of his rampage ... it was short. But look at the number of people who are murdered by police and what they were doing when it happened. Why are white men so hard for police to catch?

The NS shooter managed to have SIXTEEN crime scenes! Sixteen! Was he a criminal mastermind? Was he training for this moment his whole life? Or were police unable to see through their cloak of whiteness? Time will tell us a bit more...

My questions have very obvious answers. Anyone who isn't white can answer them right away. So then .... what will it take for us to honestly talk about police and white supremacy? White supremacy is woven into every single thing that police do, how they respond when etc.