Fortunately with the crime rate so low, the police are not as important as they once were... .
http://natpo.st/pKXYtK
Chris Selley, National Post
Friday, Jul. 22, 2011
On Tuesday, a judge ordered the release of police video that, according to Roxanne Carr, shows her being roughed up and left naked in a cell by Ottawa police officers. The ruling came over strong protests from both police and the Crown, and with the support of both Ms. Carr and local media outlets, who argued, correctly, that the public needs to see what happened in the lockup - not least because the charges against Ms. Carr have inexplicably been dropped (likely because of what's on the tape, the judge concluded). It's especially important to see the video because the local police have gained a reputation for doing to people exactly the sort of thing Ms. Carr alleges was done to her. Indeed, one of the officers she accuses has been charged with sexually assaulting another woman while she was in police custody in 2008.
Unfortunately, in what an Ottawa Citizen editorial called a "weird twist," the DVD in question has gone missing from the court file. Shucks, don't you just hate it when that happens? There are other copies, of course, but it's not like the Crown or the police would just release theirs without a fight. Sure, we pay all their salaries, and for the cellblock and the camera. And Ms. Carr wants the tape released. And there's no conceivable reason for either party not to release the tape except that it would embarrass or implicate themselves.
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