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Law Enforcement - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.....
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No, likely to Vancouver.
justride
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Off-duty Toronto cop avoids jail time for teen’s assault in ‘Kijiji deal gone bad’
Justice Jennifer Woollcombe inside a Brampton, Ont., courtroom "“I am very concerned that despite his all of his police training and experience, Au demonstrated the inability or unwillingness to assess a situation and then to use reasonable force,”
Off-duty Toronto cop avoids jail time for teen’s assault in ‘Kijiji deal gone bad’ | Globalnews.ca
An off-duty Toronto police officer guilty of assaulting a teenage during a “Kijiji deal gone bad” has been handed a suspended sentence and 12 months probation.
globalnews.ca
Another embarrassment by the courts. If it was you or I, we would be in jail and have a lifetime weapons ban. Courts need to start putting police at least on an even playing field and ideally held to an elevated standard as we give them exceptional powers so abusing/exceeding them should come with exceptional consequences.Off-duty Toronto cop avoids jail time for teen’s assault in ‘Kijiji deal gone bad’
Justice Jennifer Woollcombe inside a Brampton, Ont., courtroom "
“I am very concerned that despite his all of his police training and experience, Au demonstrated the inability or unwillingness to assess a situation and then to use reasonable force,”
Off-duty Toronto cop avoids jail time for teen’s assault in ‘Kijiji deal gone bad’ | Globalnews.ca
An off-duty Toronto police officer guilty of assaulting a teenage during a “Kijiji deal gone bad” has been handed a suspended sentence and 12 months probation.
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When judges tailor their sentences to avoid the big hammer, they should be fired. They know cops with a custodial sentence can get fired so they almost never hand one out. Even if someone dies, the thick blue line takes precedence.
Mad Mike
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We should go the route of electing judges to being democratic principles into our justice system.
Appointed judges leave no say to the public - they are free to act with near zero accountability and as Ford puts it, they are serving criminals -not the people of Ontario.
Cops with a custodial sentence are pretty much fired immediately, because they simply can't report for duty. A conviction, even with a non custodial sentence, can result in being fired. It does. however, feel like he was under-convicted. If the injury received in that "interaction" resulted in a brain bleed, then he's guilty of much more than simple assault.
My knee jerk reaction is the same but the reality is we could end up with a ton of wrongful convictions by judges that want to get re-elected by being seen as hard on crime. I don't think the general public has the time or intellect to handle the challenge.
This is one of the reasons why we definitely don't need to look to the American system, to try and fix what little is wrong with ours. We would only break our system more, not fix the issues that it currently has.
How am I contradicting myself? As previously stated our system has a markedly lower rate of recidivism than does theirs. Ours is less punitive than theirs. The comparison shows that a "tougher on crime" system is actually less effective and our needs to be tweaked a little, not moved in the direction of the US, which fails far too often. We need to deal better with repeat offenders, not "crack down" on all.
