MORE POLICE BEHAVING BADLY

I'm trying to put this case in perspective. No police did not beat, shoot maim or kill any citizens. They were not involved in stealing drugs or other items they found in the course of their duties. This ongoing episode as reported in yesterday's Waterloo Region Record involves an affair of the heart. The title of the Record story is "Officer in love triangle manages to avoid jail".

We are dealing with female O.P.P.officers here. So much for sterotyping of males as being testosterone driven neanderthals thumping their chests and braining their competition with clubs. It sounds as if the particular officer involved, Jill Carter, certainly has some anger and violence issues that need to be resolved and quickly. She has been convicted of assault, mischief and breach of recognizance. Maybe she felt she had been provoked but if that doesn't work for anyone else then why would it work for a police officer? Somewhat troubling is the absolute discharge she was given for the assault and also the non jail time for the other convictions. The perception certainly is that the judge(s) gave her a break being a police officer. Justice Margaret Woolcott in Cambridge Court said "It is rightly up to the OPP to decide through it's professional disciplinary process whether Carter should be allowed to return to her job.". Oh boy that's definitely a little scary. If aggressive, irrational males can get the boot, do women police officers not deserve similar treatment? Would a male officer receive the same treatment under the same circumstances? Are the public being protected by this whole process? Once again the public are essentially being advised to trust the authorities. I'd be a lot more trusting if the whole process were more transparent and accountable to the citizens.