Now I am shocked.
Look at what the Windsor police chief is supposed to have said:
"The chief of the Windsor police force admits that his officers routinely ran background checks on potential jurors and denies there was any improper motive behind the practice.
Chief Gary Smith said the officers were trying to help prosecutors select "quality" juries in criminal trials.
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The conduct of the Crown and police was described as "offensive" by Justice Bruce Thomas.
Despite the judge's criticisms, Chief Smith stressed his officers did nothing illegal. "For there to be a criminal offence, there has to be criminal intent. There's no criminal activity we know of," said the Windsor police chief."
There "has to be criminal intent"... .
It seems that the Chief has no understanding of Canadian law.
Criminal intent doesn't mean "I plan to be bad"; it means "I understand what I do". If an act is criminal (and the jury vetting may be; it certainly is illegal) it is criminal whether done for nefarious or noble purposes.
If I assault a 'bad' man to teach him a lesson it is still assault.
If I plant evidence to convict someone (I believe) who is guilty it's still obstructing justice.
If I rig a jury to convict someone (I believe) who is guilty it's still jury tampering.
What the Chief seems to say here is that the Windsor police were acting with the intent to do good and so, since the goal was honourable, no crime could be committed. It does suggest the Chief sees his officers as being beyond the law. Sort of a Robin Hood defence to highway robbery.
That a Chief of Police could be so ignorant of the law is surprising; that a Chief of Police could see his officers as being above the law (through purity of purpose) is shocking.
James Morton
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This would've been shocking to me if I wasn't previously aware police in Vancouver: routinely beat up marijuana dealers in Stanley Park, RCMP ran the world's best geographic profiler out of town out of "jealousy", repeatedly ignored the desparate pleas from hooker loved ones there was a serial killer active.
In Winnipeg: drunk-n-drive after a police party and killed a woman, and then a very large conspiratorial cover-up and purposefully botched investigation, subsequent dismissal of all charges.
In T.O. the entire force is crooked and functions as a biker gang. Killed a homeless man after an illegal snactioned drinking party by attacking one of the weakest and not one of the stongest; I would've broken your fucking faggot tracheas with one pinkie (oops this was Canadian Soldiers).
They are only human but they are being paid like they aren't enforcing two different levels of justice (as gangs do). So they should be paid like security guards when this happens. $10/hr. Not $20-$40/hr or whatever. Every incidence of conspiracy should be a $5/hr pay dock for a couple years; give the money to nurses or other public servants who earn their wages.
Being a police officer in Canada is the highest longevity occupation. I'm sure stressful, but for instance truckers lose over a decade in longevity and generally make less than $20/hr I think. AFAIK truckers don't act in conspiratorial way to steal merchandise.
I did mean this as a serious proposal. Something like a 25 cent pay deduction for a year for every incidence of conspiratorial behaviour. ie) the entire T.O. police force acts conspiratorial to obstruct investigations so would shortly be minimum wage while in Winnipeg I'm aware of a purposefully botched investigation for drinking and driving (which the majority of drivers do, so transit for all), and a punk teen getting thumped against a cruiser for no reason: a 50 cent pay cut.
You could call it being a rat but police are well-paid by taxpayers to be the opposite of a gang. And their lives aren't in danger when they rat, just the approval of the peers they have who act like Hell's Angels.
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