andyt andyt:
So what are you saying, the media shouldn't report on those .28%? Or run stories like: "today 98% of RCMP officers did not assault a suspect who was handcuffed and not resisting. No RCMP officers shot anybody under suspicious circumstances today?"
This is a good effort, but not nearly enough. The Dziekanski 4 were originally not charged and so would never have fallen under the rubric of this reform. The cop who claimed to have shot an unarmed man while he was prone and in fear of his life, and was not charged despite forensic evidence and the eyewitness testimony of his partner would not fall under it either. Etc - many bad apples will still skate, but at least it's a step in the right direction. If it goes ahead.
Not at all, what I'm saying is that in any profession, there are problem people. We have teachers and ministers diddling kids. We have cops abusing power. But to judge the whole lot of them by such a small fraction is stupid.
$1:
Time to straighten them out - we want to be proud of the RCMP the way we used to be.
That statement is stupid. We have no less reason to be proud of the RCMP, there will always be bad eggs. Don't let the media sensationalizing these incidents, while putting their anti-cop spin on it, sway your view of what on the whole is an excellent force of men and women.
