Dawson: Laws alone can't make bad cops good

A government alone cannot, with the stroke of a pen or the deliberations of a legislature, change entirely the nature of interactions between police officers and citizens, or the tragedies that sometimes occur. These are the products of centuries of policing culture and practice – right or wrong – and the way they intersect with crime, fear, mental illness and racism.
But Yasir Naqvi, Ontario’s attorney general, and Corrections Minister Marie-France Lalonde, both Ottawa MP