Another terrific week of policing...

You know, I try to ignore it but they were all so much in the news a few weeks ago. First, in the US 4 cops beat up a black undercover officer after first tweeting things like: “It’s gonna get IGNORANT tonight!!” and  “It’s gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these s---heads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!!”

Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/30/its-still-blast-beating-people-st-louis-police-indicted-assault-undercover-officer-posing-protester/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.06664ff1a017

But for people that think that would never happen here, not in Canada, I gotta tell you, we topped them:

First, the antics of a couple of drunk Ottawa Officers, which reads like a script for "Bon Cop Bad Cop":

Link: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/a-failed-cover-up-by-two-ottawa-officers-drunk-driving-and-a-missing-gun-how-a-weekend-in-kingston-went-awry

Then, an officer shoots another in Niagara, apparently as a result of losing a fistfight, and the last news update was November 30...?...you'd think there would be a little more interest.

Link: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/11/30/police-officer-shot-by-another-officer-in-niagara-has-extensive-disciplinary-record.html

And it rather raises the question, what were the other 11 officer witnesses doing? Just watching? Placing bets? What does that say about the culture? WTF? (and, yes, I know the officers didn't have to be present to be witnesses, but I know - just for a moment - you considered it. And that says a lot...)

Here's a bonus: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/cops-are-set-up-to-be-dangerously-bad-shots and another, try googling "Police Culture of Fear". 

Why do we give the people we most wouldn't want to have guns guns? And Vests? And Cars even? Are we that crazy? It appears we are that crazy...