Law Enforcement - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.....

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I agree 100 percent. Unfortunately, I see no movement at any level to resolve "laws for thee, not me" which is endemic in policing. The blue line and all those that believe in it must be purged.

My own experience with the police is limited. A few traffic related tickets over the 50+ years I've been driving. Many polite and neutral officers doing their job and several who were total pr***s, and had no reason to be, as I was polite and compliant.

One encounter was disconcerting. Spouse and I walking along a sidewalk in Toronto. Two TPS officers on bicycles became involved with someone on the sidewalk just ahead of us. We stopped as the sidewalk was narrow and not a lot of room to walk by. Officer turns to me, puts a hand on my chest and and pushes me back aggresively telling me to "stay back or I will charge you with obstruction". We just kept walking, nothing to do but suck it up and move on.

Every officer on the force, and every vehicle on duty, should have cameras that can not be turned off. The "I said, he said" and the blue wall of obstruction would be neutralized to a great extent.

 

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Every officer on the force, and every vehicle on duty, should have cameras that can not be turned off. The "I said, he said" and the blue wall of obstruction would be neutralized to a great extent.

The blue line means that will never happen. That would be a great first step. All of the arguments about privacy are BS as that can be addressed on the backend with limiting/logging access to footage. We all know they don't want it as the evidence of police committing crimes would be overwhelming.

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