If a health care worker did something like this, they would be facing discipline from their professional college and would face massive ramifications. If I, as a consulting professional, send unprofessional messages to a client and they contacted my boss, I would be out of a job instantly. 20 hours pay forfeiture is a joke in my opinion. The police need to be held to a higher standard than the general public, but seemingly face no actual discipline regardless of how egregious their behaviour is.
Cops need to start being held accountable, both personally and as a gan… group. We need to drop the “Whoever pays their bills pays their problems” and make them responsible for their own issues. When you sue the police you sue the city/province/country, the individual perpetrator, the force, and the union need to start footing the bill. If my mayor can’t tell the cops to “Enforce the Law” and figuratively hand them the legal code, then we shouldn’t be paying for their harmful actions as we cannot tell them to not do ‘thing’. Let’s see how fast the union drops problem cops when their dues and pension funds are hit
Agreed - start using the pension as collateral and all of a sudden I bet the cops get a LOT better, and a hell of a lot more vocal about getting rid of the shitty ones.
I read a story the other day about several murder charges that fell apart in BC because the cops (willfully) refused to obey evidence handling laws. (I think they managed to still get conviction on lesser charges though, which is something I guess).
The cops have such disdain for the law, it’s infuriating.