@LornePW keeps the police accountability file up to date
Big tip of the porkpie to Lorne over at Politics and its Discontents.There are times when the sheer inertia and toxic, paranoid self-pity at the core of dysfunctional cop culture…
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From The Police Beat: More Police Brutality
Not given to monomania, I really hope that at some point in the (perhaps distant) future, I will be able to completely move on from commenting about police misdeeds. It's…
Sometimes The Tools Of Police Intimidation Are Not Physical
I have written twice before about the ordeal suffered by Po La Hay, the Burmese immigrant living in Hamilton who was both the emotional and physical victim of police after…
How’s that "building relations" thing going, @TorontoPolice Tweeter guy?
Just checking in.Any progress identifying / charging these cocksu – er, perps?No, eh? Oh, well. Pretty hard when witnesses don't come forward, isn't it.How about:Arresting the two assholes who kicked…
More Police Brutality
For anyone concerned about police brutality and abuse of power, I urge you to check out the latest posting on Dawg's Blog, which details how Ottawa police beat a sleeping…
Ottawa Police break sleeping man’s bones
Once again, there are more horrifying allegations of brutality lodged against members of the Ottawa Police Service. A woman and her teenaged daughter found a man sleeping on the sidewalk…
Retiring senior Toronto cop calls #G20 reaction overblown
Toronto News: Retiring deputy chief calls G20 reaction overblown - thestar.comYou know where I'm going with this, so I'll just let thwap and Lorne carry the ball on this one.…
Toronto G20: The only organized agression was perpetrated by police
Toronto News: Aggression during G20 rally ‘perpetrated by police,’ judge rules - thestar.comAlthough we now have a judge's statements that the police were unjustified aggressors on the weekend of the…
Standard operating procedure vs police brutality
I’ve been thinking more about the Roxanne Carr videos. About the way she was handled by the police in the cell block. The officers seemed so calm and methodical, as…
Roxanne Carr cell block footage released
The videos of Roxanne Carr being checked into the Ottawa Police cell block are now public. You can see them here. Roxanne Carr left the following comment on my blog,…
Police Facial Recognition Skills Continue To Decline
Whether it is a food, air, or water-borne virus, or a strange and hitherto undocumented brain condition, there is no question that police facial recognition skills are declining, calling into…
SIU Concludes Reopened #G20 Nobody Investigation | #policebrutality
SIU Concludes Reopened G20 Nobody Investigation... aaaaand, guess what? Can't find any way to charge anyone else.Who could have foreseen such a thing?Oh, well. Maybe the Toronto Police will actually…
Fire the thugs
Even I, who have a bit of a jaundiced eye when it comes to the behaviour of Ottawa’s police force as a whole, am surprised by how much police brutality…
Toronto Star Readers Speak Out On Police Abuses
I have written before about how much we are enjoying our subscription to The Toronto Star, one of the few newspapers that still seems to be doing the job that…
Join Us For the Unveiling of a Headstone In Memory of Nick Schaack
Join Us For the Unveiling of a Headstone In Memory of Nick SchaackWhat: Unveiling of a commemorative headstone for Nick Schaack, who died as a result of his participation in…
Judge Excoriates Cops As Thugs, Expresses Content Superiors Who Conceal
Yesterday I posted some of the comments made by Justice Allen upon sentencing two Toronto police officers to a year of house arrest for beating a Cabbagetown man in 2009.…
@TorontoPolice Tweeter guy: Is this your idea of building relations? | #G20
Don't know what this guy was doing ... ... but even if we grant for the moment that the apprehension was lawful and justified, can you explain why the Toronto…
Judge: Police Have A Culture That Rejects Accountability
Those were the words of Justice Elliot Allen as he sentenced two Toronto police officers to one year of house arrest for beating a Cabbagetown man in 2009. As is…