Via a helpful reader, one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen this week:
I don’t know Joe Couto, and I’m sure he’s a perfectly decent guy in real life, but this is on behalf of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police.
How many ways do you want this to be a bad idea? Policing priorities determined, not by public need or democratic process, but by shareholders’ demands for profit? Policing decisions made in accordance with the desires of the folks holding the purse strings? Policing operations influenced by (horrors!) … class biases?
If you filled a trial balloon swamp gas instead of helium, this is what it would smell like.
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